Quotes About Comprehension

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

In my mind, the speed of the game is mental.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

Even to this day, I read things in real time, you know, I don't - like, as if it's being spoken. I can't skim stuff in ways that I know certain people can. I have to sort of hear it in my head to be able to read it.

In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.