Quotes About Comprehension

The reason for this was not that the subject was simple enough to be explained without mathematics, but rather that it was much too involved to be fully accessible to mathematics.

Roo!" Calvin jumps off my lap in a happy dog dance. I know some people who argue that dogs can't understand English. I figure their dogs are just a lot dumber than Calvin, because there is a definite understanding of the words ice cream.

Not everyone gets the same message from the same words - or the same results from the same books

We are epistemological beings: we live out an orientation to knowing, whether we "know" it or not.

By polygons I mean,' said Judy, 'that a question is not a figure with one side only. It is a cube, a heptagon, an octagon. You and I see just one side of a thing and jump to the doing of it. We must learn to walk around the five or the seven or the eight sides it may have and study each before we move an inch.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

One place understood helps us understand all places better

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to "access."--Eva Brann

We mustn't only remember the good bits," she said. "We must remember the bad bits, too, so that we know it was real.

When we learn something new and try to teach it to someone else, our success in both receiving and transmitting the information depends on what it is about.

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

Remind yourself that other people's jobs aren't so simple.

I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.

Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp.

I find I process the news by listening to someone else's report.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.'

We're not idiots.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.