Quotes About Comprehension

Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them

The problem gets compounded by what's called the "illusion of explanatory depth," where we feel confidence in our understanding of a complex system, but in reality have just superficial knowledge.

La mente del lector suele divagar entre el 20 y 40% del tiempo que dedica a la lectura.

A reader's mind typically wanders anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the time while perusing a text.

complexity—to reason—plummeted.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn't make sense.

The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

Boy if I get smart wont he be serprised.

Dr Strauss said do anything the testor telld me even if it dont make no sense because thats testing.

Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.

Listen with your heart. You will understand.

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience, and patience.

Wisdom > knowledge > information > data.

When people talk, listen completely.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

NOTICE Persons attempting to find a "text" in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in it will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise "understand" it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite. Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'.

We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the mind in comprehension. In understanding we start from the connection of the given, living whole, in order to make the past comprehensible in terms of it.

You don't have to speak at all— I know what you'd say… - Laura