Quotes About Comprehension

Simplicity and concision are tough. The French philosopher Blaise Pascal famously noted that he'd written a long letter, having lacked the time required to write a shorter one.2 As I believe, if you can't convey a thought clearly and in a few words, then your comprehension of it is probably lacking.

Actually it's very simple, but simple things are always the hardest to explain.

Don't explain it to me, please," Anheg said. "As long as somebody I know and trust understands, that's all that's really important.

I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

A dog, if you point at something, will look only at your finger.

Advance organizers are brief chunks of information—spoken, written, or illustrated—presented prior to new material to help facilitate learning and understanding.

may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

Hear the meaning within the word.

Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves -Cicero

The which if you with patient ears attend

the secret to listening to others is to listen to ourselves first?

You can empathize without sympathizing.

Comme dit Kinglake : un examen si minutieux qu'il finit par placer un objet sous un angle de vision mensonger est un plus mauvais guide qu'un rapide coup d'oeil qui embrasse les choses dans leurs justes proportions.

Sin embargo, ninguna de estas alternativas, tomadas por separado, eran ciertas; aunque, tomadas en conjunto, hubiese cierto punto de verdad en ambas.

what is the nature of the bridge between the sense perceptions and the concepts?

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

I read 'War and Peace' in 20 minutes," he says. "It's about Russia.

He hecho un curso de lectura veloz y he leído Guerra y paz en veinte minutos. Habla de Rusia.

Justo castigo Es verdad que tengo cierta facilidad de palabra y puedo sostener una conversación sobre un repertorio amplio de temas, pero me pilló por sorpresa que aquella soberbiamente proporcionada aparición reparase en mis exiguas dotes de forma tan rápida y completa.

Saber: qué verbo amargo.