Quotes About Comprehension

do i look like i can't hear you?

Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing we have begun, at last, to understand.

Who does not know?

I see you are beginning to read me like a scroll.

Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.

To know. Not to know about.

At first Welsh just stared, as did Ryan. But when the meaning of what this room might hold for him formed in Welsh's mind, he protested with a wide-eyed grunt.

The educator's job is to ask...well, what IS she like?

They're not as smart as we are, they're not as intuitive as we are, and they certainly don't need to know about fifty percent of what we do." She looked around. "He didn't hear that, did he?

A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find someone who's forgotten words so I can have a word with him?8

You know what a word means when you know how to use it, not what its definition is. That is why we can understand and use all sorts of words that we struggle to define clearly if we are put on the spot and asked to do so.

And as you read, you are not conscious of the letters or even of the words or even of the syntax or the sentences and punctuation, but only of their meaning. As you listen to an address, phonemes disappear into words and words into sentences and sentences disappear into what they are trying to say, into meaning. To be conscious of the elements of speech is to destroy the intention of the speech.

God's goodness transcends all thought, all comprehension

We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we're not very good at it. We retain just 25 percent of what we hear.

I didn't know that disappointment and grief could become all consuming. I couldn't comprehend how those feelings could cripple a person permanently and cast a shadow over an entire future.

Learn to listen when people are talking. First, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say one thing they mean another.

Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming, all that jumping around. At present, he was working his way, deliciously, through a book on Mendel, the father of genetics. A man who might not have spend seven years watching peas, if he'd had the internet.

cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner (1977) wrote, "Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully" (p. 7).

Estoy tan solo como este gato, y mucho más solo porque lo sé y él no.

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.

Digamos que el mundo es una figura, hay que leerla. Por leerla entendamos generarla.

ellos ya sabían leer en sus silencios.

A este señor le lleva un rato comprender que los designios de la Providencia son inescrutables, y que en realidad el milagro ha ocurrido ahora.

para definir y entender habría que estar fuera de lo definido y lo entendible.