Quotes About Comprehension

The weight, the pace, the stride of a man's mind are too unlike her own for her to lift anything substantial from him successfully. The ape is too distant to be sedulous. Perhaps

Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's. His understanding often astonished her. But did he notice the flowers? No. Did he notice the view? No. Did he even notice his own daughter's beauty, or whether there was pudding on his plate or roast beef? He would sit at table with them like a person in a dream.

I knew my cases and my genders; I could know everything in the world if I wished.

So that to know her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places.

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

We are still groping perhaps, but we grope intelligently, like a gynecologist feeling a tumor.

There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot." - John Shade

As palavras sem a experiência não teriam qualquer significado.

but as there is in the world not a single human who can speak my language;

Aquello que se escribió con esfuerzo se lee con facilidad

When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation.

Attention is focused consciousness, and consciousness is that power of knowing.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

The first rule of my speaking is: listen!

I already know that," you might say. Well, you do. And you also don't.

a menudo encontraba párrafos enteros que no tenían ningún sentido para ella.

A palindrome. Damn, you're right.

Nadie pide lo que no necesita. A medida que pasan los años, esas necesidades no satisfechas siguen operando con la misma intensidad que en sus comienzos. Pero los adultos estamos cada vez menos dispuestos a comprender los mensajes, sobre todo repitiendo la frase "ya sos grande". O la de peor categoría: "Eso es una regresión".

literally. Unlike most people, even allegedly educated ones, he used

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

toda historia es como un gran pastel, cada quién da cuenta de la tajada que se come y el único que da cuenta de todo es el pastelero.