Quotes About Comprehension

He that reads, be it on yon Kindle or on yon book made from pulp, is he who shall not be called a jackass.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

People were made up of all sorts of different bits, Dru thought. Funny bits and romantic bits and selfish bits and brave bits. Sometimes you saw only a few of them. Maybe it was when you saw them all that you realised you knew someone really well.

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.

We can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us.

The more you know, the more you know.

The fact that you don't grasp the meaning of something doesn't mean it has none.

When somebody holds a view that seems to make no sense, know that it makes sense to them, but for reasons you don't know anything about yet. And I guess in a lot of cases,

I sat there and listened to every word, but it didn't really add up to something coherent to me. Maybe my brain was too busy, or maybe you have to know the legal system, or both.

I overheard her tell my mother that it didn't matter anyway, because we were entirely too young to understand a term like indecent exposure. She didn't realise that children file away such words, awaiting definition.

If you listen to people, they'll tell you a lot, even when they don't mean to.

get it. How did you not know?

Just because I don't think normally doesn't mean I don't know normal thinking when I hear it.

Unlike Ed, she listened. But then she forgot.

children not only remember the facts and sequence of the events in stories but are also able to discover meaning in them.

To communicate effectively with children we must learn how they think.

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.

In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is. It

So you don't love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?

We Queerfolk are big-picture types. You have to be, to see how the Queerness of the World works itself through everything.

Sometimes you need to explain your experiences in order to understand them yourself.

Grasp the subject; the words will follow.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

When Titus speaks, I can hear every word. For me, that's like when the optician slides home the right lens and all the e's and g's and o's and c's become perfectly clear again and it isn't a struggle, even to read the bottom-most line...His voice touches places inside me like someone moving through a house, flicking light switches...No peering into corners for what's been said.