Quotes About Comprehension

They rarely stopped while reading a piece to try to repair their confusion. They kept doggedly on until they finished the "assignment," even though they had no idea what they were reading.

students don't expect to understand what they read.

They wait to be told what it is they have read. If no one does that, they just don't get it.

But my dad had argued that he didn't know the language of cars. To him, everything had its own language—the language of breakfast, the language of business, the language of politics, and on and on. In Spanish he knew all the languages, but for as long as he'd been speaking English, he believed he knew it only in certain realms.

humans, ah, humans I get right every time." And her

It is seldom that any judge really gets to the bottom of a case. The well of truth is usually too deep for the merely judicial plumb-line.

I've known for a long time it's useless to try to share what you don't understand yourself.

Queremos comprender, creemos que si vivimos lo bastante vamos a comprender el mundo; dentro de una hora, mañana, dentro de un año,... Pero quizá no importe nada comprender o no.

She saw, more or less, how the whole thing had happened, for she had the gift—which is often a doubtful blessing—of being able to see the other person's point of view, of being able to put herself in the other person's place.

interested in Barbara, whom, after eighteen months of daily contact, he was just beginning to know. The strangest thing about Barbara, Arthur reflected, the strangest thing about this strange woman who was now his lawful wedded wife, was that although she understood practically nothing, she yet understood everything.

Men who understand women being sometimes too understanding of women other than their wives.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

Computers can see, and understand what people say via speech recognition.

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

It would distress the girls if they were to realize how much you dislike me." "I disapprove of you," she replied gravely, walking out to the grand staircase with him. "That's not the same as dislike." "Lady Trenear, I disapprove of me." He grinned at her. "So we have something in common.

I wish I could have heard more." "You should have used my drinking glass trick," Pandora said impatiently. "If I'd been there, I would be able to tell you every word that was said.

Owen looked at Greg, who shrugged. Owen had no idea what the shrug was intended to convey. Greg rarely said anything. But unlike most people who use words sparingly, he hadn't developed superior forms of nonverbal communication.