Quotes About Comprehension

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Give me, next good, an understanding wife,By nature wise, not learned much by art.

Memories that have never been told aren't yet solid stories; they are potential stories. It may be that the interlocutor is the self, as in John Harmon's monologue, but it is always the self in relation to the idea of another, the "I" addressing a "you," because the desire to tell implies that the tale must become comprehensible to a listener.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

I learned what love is from loving you.

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

The walked in silence for a moment. The world was spinning easily as she comprehended what was going on--he was doing sexy for _her._ Not the other way around. He was trying so hard, reaching for her.

He's...like what I just said.

We cannot do anything with an object that has no name.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh,' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

it's much easier to be incomprehensible than intelligent, and most people can't spot the difference.

Mucha gente tiene pensamientos limitados sobre Dios. En un esfuerzo por verlo como nuestro amigo, hemos perdido de vista su inmensidad. En nuestro deseo de entenderlo, hemos intentado contenerlo.

God intended for everyone to be able to read and understand his Word. The

Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being unaware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of.

Sua avó diz que você lê muito. Em todas as oportunidades que tem. Isso é bom, mas não o suficiente. Palavras significam mais do que é colocado no papel. É preciso a voz humana para dar a elas as nuances do significado mais profundo.

Tu abuela dice que lees mucho, siempre que tienes oportunidad. Eso está bien, pero no es suficiente. Las palabras significan más de lo que dicen en el papel. Necesitan la voz humana para que les infunda los matices del significado más profundo.

We learned the times tables without understanding their grand principle, simply because we had the capacity and no alternative.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.