Quotes About Comprehension

Do not say you agree, disagree, or suspend judgement until you can say "I understand

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

It is wasteful to read a book slowly that deserves only a fast reading; speed reading skills can help you solve that problem.

a arte de ler é a técnica de apanhar qualquer tipo de comunicação.

If you read for understanding, reading for information will usually take care of itself.

We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies.

Analytical reading is thorough reading, complete reading, or good reading—the best reading you can do.

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding

Informar-se é simplesmente saber que algo é um fato. Esclarecer-se é saber, além de que algo é um fato, do que se trata esse fato: por que ele é assim, quais as conexões que possui com outros fatos, em quais aspectos são iguais, em quais aspectos são diferentes etc.

Skimming or pre-reading is the first sublevel of inspectional reading. Your main aim is to discover whether the book requires a more careful reading.

Every book, no matter how difficult, contains interstitial material that can be and should be read quickly; and every good book also contains matter that is difficult and should be read very slowly.

2. STUDY THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

outside help should be sought whenever a book remains unintelligible to you, either in whole or part, after you have done your best to read it according to the rules of intrinsic reading.

Many persons believe that they know how to read because they read at different speeds. But they pause and go slow over the wrong sentences. They pause over the sentences that interest them rather than the ones that puzzle them.

Contanto somente como o poder de sua mente, você tem de operar os símbolos que estão diante de você a fim de elevar-se do estado de entendimento inferior ao estado de entendimento superior. Essa elevação consiste em uma leitura criteriosa - o tipo de leitura que todo o livro desafiador merece.

2. WHAT IS BEING SAID IN DETAIL, AND HOW?

Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.

intelligent action depends on knowledge. Knowledge

The four questions stated above summarize the whole obligation of a reader. They apply to anything worth reading—a book or an article or even an advertisement.

There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well.

The questions answered by inspectional reading are: first, what kind of book is it? second, what is it about as a whole? and third, what is the structural order of the work whereby the author develops his conception or understanding of that general subject matter?

RULE 1. YOU MUST KNOW WHAT KIND OF BOOK YOU ARE READING, AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS AS EARLY IN THE PROCESS AS POSSIBLE, PREFERABLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO READ.

He is familiar with their ambiguity and he has grown accustomed to the variation in their meanings as they occur in this context or that.

Dado que toda a leitura consiste em uma atividade, então toda a leitura tem de ser ativa. A leitura totalmente passiva é algo impossível - afinal, não conseguimos ler com os olhos paralisados e com a mente adormecida.