Quotes About Comprehension

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.

I just like to think about what I'm reading. Don't you?" "I don't read very well. So I don't think I think very well either." Galinda smiled. "I dress to kill, though.

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

I was reminded of Lord Kelvin's observation, overbroad but nevertheless thought-provoking: "When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

Ne lisez pas comme les enfants lisent, pour vous amuser, ni comme les ambitieux lisent, pour vous instruire. Non. Lisez pour vivre.

However, all this reading had disturbed their brains.

This man, who was so experienced in love, couldn't distinguish the dissimilarity in the emotions, behind the similarity of the expressions.

Ä°liÅŸkimizde eksik olan, bizi birbirimizden uzak tutan tek bir ÅŸey vard?r: GörünüÅŸte farkl? parçalar?m?z?n, gerçekten tek bir parça olduÄŸunu görmemizi saÄŸlayacak yeni bir anlay??...Çok daha büyük bir resmin küçük parçalar?.

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

Oh, Daddy, do 'splain yourself you are not 'splaining yourself at all.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. Comprehension does not mean denying the outrageous, deducing the unprecedented from precedents, or explaining phenomena by such analogies and generalities that the impact of reality and the shock of experience are no longer felt.

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be or might have been.

It is, of course, always nice to be praised. But this is really not the point, it's ever so much nicer to be understood.

Writing is an integral part of the process of understanding.

You have heart disease, people understand. When the brain gets sick, well, it's almost impossible to comprehend.

maybe it was because the lonely can sometimes sense the lonely.

You won't believe it. I don't believe it either. And yet I know what I know. I don't believe in magic or superstition. But I believe that there are some things we cannot yet comprehend—that there are things beyond our capabilities to understand. Sometimes, explaining how the universe works is like teaching a lion to read. Reading is real. The lion is real. But he's never going to read." I