Quotes About Comprehension

The only real measure of the effectiveness of my teaching is what happens in the mind of the person learning.

The ability to learn quickly is the most important skill to have.

I know what it's like to have a power no other cat understands. It's the loneliest feeling in the world.

Lots of people don't think little kids understand what adults are thinking or doing, Sometimes they - the adults, I mean - behave as if children are deaf and can't hear what's being said right in front of them. But none of that is true: they do understand, and even if they don't know what the words mean, they can feel the emotions behind the words.

After spending time with Rosa during these past weeks, Suzanne understood precisely why her brother

Either you understood impulsive rage, and the memory failures that sometimes go with it, or you didn't. That was it.

The Barbarian hopes -- and that is the very mark of him -- that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilisation has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort but he will not be at pains to replace such goods nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being.

It is the plainest and simplest of things that most daunt and confuse us.

I wanted to say that lots of things weren't in the libraries of the wise, including plate tectonics, molecular biology and the complete works of J. K. Rowling, but she'd probably say that I was missing the point.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

You can't hate a man you understand.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

Sima made a space for me to hear that there were depths beneath what I was saying that I hadn't sounded yet.

When told to do something, he tended to "obey not the order which he had actually been given by a superior, but rather the order which that superior would have given if he had known what he was talking about.

I knew perfectly well what it was about.

each regulator was aware of only part of the problem, and some parts were not examined at all.

I was puzzled, but shortly thereafter learned the reason.

but I didn't have the patience for its complexities.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

In fact, the Latin root of the word literacy is the same as for the word intellect: leggere, "to read." The source for the word intellectual also gives us its true meaning: inter-leggere, "to read between." An intellectual is defined by an ability to read between the lines, to analyze and to think critically, to understand things on many levels at the same time.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things.