Quotes About Comprehension

I began to feel like I was getting the whole story for the first time, that I was being handed the missing pieces to the puzzle, and the world was making a little more sense.

Il suffit de prêter son attention et son regard pour comprendre que nous faisons tous partie d'une gigantesque symphonie qui, chaque matin, dans une étincelante cacophonie, improvise sa survie.

He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it.

They explain the new by the old—and the old they explain by the older still, like those historians who turn a Lenin into a Russian Robespierre, and a Robespierre into a French Cromwell: when all is said and done, they have never understood anything at all.

If someone read every book that's ever been written all he could when he was done is he'd read a lot of books.

If someone read every book that had ever been written. all he could say when he was done is he'd read a lot of books.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

I don't know how to explain it." "Try words. If that doesn't work, we'll move on to interpretive dance.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.

It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

I do not have the female experience. I don't, and I strive to understand it, but I'll never truly be able to. I don't think any men will, really.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.

I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.