Quotes About Comprehension

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

Everything is art and it's part of the painting. (To talk with somebody it's art, to understand a language is art, to understand a book is art, to understand somebody is art...)

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

she agreed. The professor said that she

sank, at the realization of what had really

We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.

I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how.

Regular adult Americans are no more capable of doing math than they are of photosynthesis.

I see', said Smee, still not seeing.

ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.

You don't propose marriage after one date. You don't decide on a career after one article or class session. You don't cast your vote based on one opinion of the candidate in question. Stories, essays, novels, and memoirs all deserve to be, indeed have to be read multiple times. Every writer worth his or her salt knows that writing is rewriting. Every reader should know the same thing about understanding text: that is, real reading is rereading.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F. Drucker

If it doesn't make sense the way I'm thinking it through, it means I'm thinking it through wrong. But then what way is right? He

BETH READ THROUGH the report on her computer screen three times. This was something her father had taught her. Read through once for general conceptualization and then a second time for the nitty-gritty details. And then read it a final time, at least an hour after the first reading, but do so out of order, which forced your mind and your eyes from their comfort zones.

Trying to look at the whole of the past is, it seems to me, like using a map of the world. No geographer would try to teach exclusively from street maps. Yet most historians teach about the past of particular nations, or even of agrarian civilizations, without ever asking what the whole of the past looks like.