Quotes About Comprehension

A Benet) No te goces en desconcertar.

Content written at the eighth-grade level can be read and understood by 80 percent of Americans.

Learning the nuts and bolts of the company could later give you a big advantage. All of our top growth-mindset CEOs knew their companies from top to bottom, inside out, and upside down.

En lugar de sumergirse en una memorización irreflexiva del material del curso, repasaban cada tema hasta estar seguros de comprenderlo bien. Estudiaban para aprender, no para sacar un sobresaliente en el examen. Y precisamente por eso sacaron mejores notas, no porque fuesen más inteligentes o porque tuviesen una base más sólida en ciencias.

Instead of plunging into unthinking memorization of the course material, they said: "I looked for themes and underlying principles across lectures," and "I went over mistakes until I was certain I understood them." They were studying to learn, not just to ace the test. And, actually, this was why they got higher grades—not because they were smarter or had a better background in science.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

People came to understand one another not by words but by what had happened between them. It couldn't be said, in so many words.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Savoir mal est pire qu'ignorer

There's more to the story you don't know because you did not live it."

Any truth must be in a humanly conceptualized and understandable form if it is to be a truth for us. If it's not a truth for us, how can we make sense of its being a truth at all?

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading

A man sees. A man hears. A man knows.

To lead men you must know them.

A turnip would have grasped it quicker.

I did not know." "You should have.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)

He is arguably the most well-informed man in the world, yet he rarely reads newspapers.

If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful