Quotes About Comprehension

Even the most complex math can be broken into a sequence of trivial steps. Each of these slaves has been trained to complete specific equations in an assembly-line fashion. When taken together, this collective human mind is capable of remarkable feats. Holtzman surveyed the room as if he expected his solvers to give him a resounding cheer. Instead, they studied their work with heavy-lidded eyes, moving through equation after equation with no comprehension of reasons or larger pictures.

Listen to understand rather than listen to respond.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learnings possible.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.

I began to understand the true nature of my adversary.

An informed public depends upon literacy and language: its good use, conception, comprehension and incorruptibility.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

A blank space on a form, the missing page, a void, a hole in your knowledge of someone--it's still some real thing . It exists. You don't get to fill it in with whatever you want.

Which makes you wonder, are they really speaking real words or do little kids just start out naturally understanding each other before the prime of life sets in?

Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it?

I was getting a dim comprehension of the difference between Hallie and me. It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it. The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

But the weirdness wasn't in what I didn't know. It's what I did know.

He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.

Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.

Only what do you know?

So much of being a good interrogator was just knowing how to actively listen to someone

Why we should believe in wolf children seems somehow easier to understand than the ways we distinguish between what is human and what is animal behavior. In making such distinctions we run the risk of fooling ourselves completely. We assume that the animal is entirely comprehensible and, as Henry Beston has said, has taken form on a plane beneath the one we occupy. It seems to me that this is a sure way to miss the animal and to see, instead, only another reflection of our own ideas.

We might mean different things. How can you tell? Only by reading each of us carefully and seeing what each of us has to say—not by pretending that we are both saying the same thing. We're often saying very different things.

I can't give a full analysis here

To fully understand about hugging, maybe you had to have missed a lot of it.

From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to and adults hear nothing while pretending to listen.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.