Quotes About Comprehension

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

pero su tío Jaime opinaba que la gente no lee lo que no le interesa, y si le interesa es que ya tiene madurez para hacerlo.

He sensed he learned a lesson, although the precise meaning of that lesson wasn't clear to him.

Qué larga y confusa es la vida, mamá! — Al menos tú puedes escribirla para tratar de entenderla.

la gente no lee lo que no le interesa, y si le interesa es que ya tiene madurez para hacerlo.

I remember being given a demo of the 'World Wide Web' at Peter Gabriel's studio in the early 90s, and I had zero comprehension that I was staring into the future. I was just happy with my pager and teletext on the TV.

Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it.

The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A wise and an understanding heart.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!