Quotes About Comprehension

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

And what have I done? What? WHAT?...You've stolen them. With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who them was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [ Inigo Montoya ]

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it too often.

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

Everything, though, depended on whether we could teach the Ariekei what we had to.

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

Sometimes he opened books and found words that had defeated him the first time he had seen them, and that he had then written down and learned. It delighted him. He felt like a fox that had tracked them. That was how it was with thorough, and climber, and khepri. When he encountered them for the second time, they surrendered to him, and he read them without pause. In

To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Clarity dissolves resistance.

But let's not confuse memorability with wisdom.

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

We might think we understand it because it's right there, in black and white, but it has so many zeros that our brains fog up. It's just "lots." When we see how much larger it is than a million, it comes as a surprise.

This is the Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us.

the Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it is preceded by the Huh? experience.

we are quick to jump to conclusions because we give too much weight to the information that's right in front of us, while failing to consider the information that's just offstage. He called this tendency "what you see is all there is.

That's not intuitive knowledge.

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

As we gain information we are more likely to focus on what we don't know :" Someone who knows the state capitals of 17 of 50 states may be proud of her knowledge. But someone who knows 47 may think of herself as not knowing 3 capitals

There's an important middle piece to the puzzle: Listening means actively seeking to understand another person. That's why we say it's a contact sport. Listening without contact, listening without a dramatic connection, is like looking without seeing.

You don't know what you don't know. That's why you don't have. Because to know and not to have is not to know.