Quotes About Comprehension

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

Boys, for the most part, are not very observant - or all that together smart, for that matter.

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

A lot of times when you're around really, really smart people, you don't really understand them.

People are smarter than you might think.

Reading is important because it makes you smarter and lets you find out about things you're curious about.

I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

I get smarter when I read seeing big words.

When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very well yet. They lack automatic decoding skills, and this prevents them from being able to read accurately, much less smoothly and quickly. Decoding accuracy is the first prerequisite to fluency.

Few people put veal stock in the same category as, say, the Goldberg Variations or Plato's cave allegory, and this lack of understanding amazes

Reading this dialogue did something good for me. It made me think very hard about this book and revise my thinking about it, as literature has done in my life before. When you associate your mind with greats, your mind improves, your mind goes to new places. As the Jewish Kabbalists said, it's the white between the letters, not the black ink you see, that is important. That's something very hard to comprehend unless you've thought about mysticism.

Bizim en büyük bildiÄŸimiz ÅŸeyleri, doÄŸan?n o konudaki son s?n?rlar? sayar?z.

La parole est à moitié à celui qui écoute, et à moitié à celui qui parle.

Et si je suis un homme ayant quelque lecture, je suis un homme qui n'en retient rien.

All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning -- not one drop of rain falling after another, much less a feather or a torn-of leaf.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them. —ANONYMOUS

Animals cannot speak and understand English

Los humanos somos los únicos en todo el reino animal capaces de comprender el concepto de mañana

I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle. You should, too.