Quotes About Comprehension

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

Her face twisted up, and it reminded me of Loiosh once when I'd asked him to explain how he flew.

I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.

Human beings always want explanations. They have to know everything about everything and they have to know it immediately.

Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do.

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

I think that any channel, whether it's Fox, CNN, or whatever, if they were truly giving a 360-view of what's going on, we would be better equipped to not slap judgments on people we really don't understand.

When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of that book and say, 'Well, this is the part that either confirms or really challenges my biases, so that's what I'm going to say the entire book is about.'

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

I think I'm ever so slightly behind myself and I don't know what would make me feel in possession of all the facts.

Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

I'm a slow reader.

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

I'm a very slow reader.

People probably perceive me as a bit boring because I am a little slow in the humor department, but it's just hard for me to get jokes when they're told in English. I am always the last one to get it.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.