Quotes About Comprehension

Leases, writs, statutes, all are written to be read, and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.

The only things he cannot remember are the things he never knew. His

It is always best to understand the proper way of doing something before you find your own way.

A man who possesses the art of correct reading will … instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing … The art of reading, as of learning, is this: … to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

Knowledge and action are one and the same.

Una de las desgracias a las que se ven sometidas las grandes inteligencias es la de comprender por fuerza todas las cosas, tanto los vicios como las virtudes.

Ma chi può lusingarsi di essere compreso? Moriamo tutti incompresi. È il detto delle donne e quello degli scrittori.

But, after all, too much knowledge, like ignorance, brings you to a negation.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen.

student Rani. "Passive listening is the way he listens to me.

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her

Her husband was a patient man, but she had noticed a glazed look on his face as she'd talked, admittedly for quite a long time,

The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter.

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

She stared at me and nodded into the silence between us, as if I were still talking and making perfect sense.

It was a skill of mine, splitting myself in half, pretending to be childish and oblivious while shifting through adult exchanges with the focus and discrimination of a forensic detective.

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. you have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. you then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing (Pg.79)

don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.