Quotes About Comprehension

English was the only class I felt like I might be able to keep up with him, since I'd always been a big reader. Books were so much easier to relate to than people.

She doesn't have a thing for him, Dalton. She's in love with him. There's a difference. One day, you'll realize the difference when you come to know love for yourself, and then you can easily recognize it in someone else.

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

One thing we do know: We don't comprehend the love of Jesus Christ.

could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

But in this respect I do not think I am much worse off than the girls who take notes. If the mind is occupied with the mechanical process of hearing and putting words on paper at pell-mell speed, I should not think one could pay much attention to the subject under consideration or the manner in which it is presented.

I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?

Don't read too fast," she said.

Martinsson was at the other side of the table, watching him. 'He knows exactly what's going on inside my head at the moment,' Wallander thought, 'and he agrees with me, whether I speak up now or hold my tongue.

The Eyes See Only What The Mind Is Prepared To Comprehend.

Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Confucious said, To know what we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Not all books are as dull as their readers. –

We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing.

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers.

Most people do not read; those who read do not understand; those who understand forget.

Having at length finished his laboured harangue, with which the audience, though it had greatly raised their attention and admiration, were not much edified, as they really understood not a single

En ello consiste la fundamental diferencia entre la buena y la mala economía. El mal economista sólo ve lo que se advierte de un modo inmediato, mientras que el buen economista percibe también más allá.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.