Quotes About Comprehension

Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it.

Existem muitas coisas no mundo que ainda não aprendemos a ler.

they have separated their intelligences from their other faculties. And that is not an intelligent thing to do.

this is a different kind of knowing.… It's like understanding, I suppose.…

She watched it calmly, content not to know at first but to know that a meaning was coming, and then it began to clear. She let it dance on until it was certain.

Un piccolissimo simbolo, se ce ne fosse stato bisogno, del milione di circostanze della vita altrui, di quella bufera di dettagli che formano il guazzabuglio di una biografia umana: un piccolissimo simbolo che mi ricordava perchè la nostra comprensione della gente dev'essere sempre, per forza, nel migliore dei casi, difettosa.

You broke the problem down and examined the component parts. Most men attempt to solve riddles by allowing their minds to leap like monkeys from branch to branch, without ever realizing that it is the root that needs examining. Always remember that, young prince. The method works with men as well as it works with riddles.

In real life there is not, as there is in every jigsaw puzzle, one picture and one picture only, into which all the pieces will eventually fit," he wrote. "It is the totalitarian mind which thinks that there is one and only one picture.

There are people who read books and there are people that make noise.

Hearing is when the sound reaches your ears and listening is when the sound reaches your brain.

More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.

I don't want to know anything, and I want to know it all

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you. Now it's hitting me.

You are leaving me messages, but I haven't gotten the message yet.

and at first i didn't really know jed was although i was sure he knew that i was but gradually we both knew and we knew.

I don't think meaning is something that can be explained. You have to understand it on your own. It's like when you're starting to read...it's that leap, that understanding, that leads to meaning.

Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

I can tell there are lots of thoughts she's considering, but I have no idea what they are. Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

A wise man once said that in order to communicate, you have to be able to speak in someone else's language.

Trying to explain moral principles to Khe Sahn was like reviewing a standard 1040 tax form with a house cat!

If something is written in your native language and it's taking you half a year to get through it, unless you're being paid by the hour to read it, I'd say there's a problem.

When I bleat here on page seventeen, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and 'bleat, bleat'? " I asked. "I feel like 'bleat, bleating,' but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don't want to steal focus, you know what I mean?" He did. That was the scary part, that someone understood me.

Una persona sabia es aquella que sabe cómo hacer simples los asuntos más complicados.