Quotes About Comprehension

I have a reading problem and it's hard for me to read books. But I had no problem with the 'Emerald Forest' script.

Tranquila, todos lo comprenderán —dije—. Por fin todo el mundo lo entenderá.

few people in the department. Like him, they recognized the name but couldn't place it.

I am listening," he said. "I just hear the things you're not saying.

anthology knowledge isn't real knowledge.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it's already happened — I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

When someone uses the phrase 'the prick one', and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word 'metaphorically', you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

Non ci dimentichiamo mai che alcuni libri sono scritti male; però dovremmo ricordarci che a volte sono anche letti male.

Learning to read happens once and once only for most of us, and for the vast majority of adults in first-world countries it happened a long time ago. You have to dig deep, deep down into the bog of the almost lost, and then carry what you have found carefully to the surface, and then you have to find the words and images to describe what you see on your spade.

En general, los hombres juzgan más por los ojos que por la inteligencia, pues todos pueden ver, pero pocos comprenden lo que ven.

Hay tres clases de cerebros: el primero discierne por sí, el segundo entiende lo que los otros disciernen y el tercero no entiende ni discierne lo que los otros disciernen. El primero es excelente, el segundo bueno y el tercero inútil.

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

Knowledge doth come of learning well retained, Unfruitful else

How can those who live in the light of the day possibly comprehend the depths of the night?

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

Anl?yorsun! Anl?yorsun ya, seni bu yiyecek! Anlamasayd?n mutlu olurdun!

I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else!

People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.

Willingness to be puzzled by what seem to be obvious truths is the first step towards gaining understanding of how the world works.

There's no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.

Because you cannot study the acquisition or use of language in an intelligent manner without having some idea about this language which is acquired or utilized.

Las personas educadas bajo un modelo domesticador no son capaces de interconectar las piezas y distinguir dos dimensiones.