Quotes About Comprehension

I found the task so truly arduous... that I was almost tempted to think... that the movement of the heart was only to be comprehended by God. For I could neither rightly perceive at first when the systole and when the diastole took place by reason of the rapidity of the movement...

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

Old friends sometimes need no words to understand each other.

But it was in the nearly silent times that the real strength of their bond was evident. A friend who understands everything without being told is the rarest and best kind of friend.

Haven't you seen that part of me as well? A man's many things. To isolate one part of him and judge him on that alone is to do him an injustice, don't you think?

what I know in my heart is a mystery beyond human comprehension. Perhaps the most important truth I've learned across the whole of my life is that it's only when I yield to the river and embrace the journey that I find peace.

do him no good, that it's pointless to rail about the difficulty of the twists in that river, and that he shouldn't worry about where the current will take him, but I confess that even after more than eighty years of living, I still struggle to understand what I know in my heart is a mystery beyond human comprehension. Perhaps the most important truth I've learned across the whole of my life is that it's only when I yield to the river and

The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

My childhood ended that summer. I learned the word murder. But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that...You have to live with it, carry it around with you. You have to...see it from different angles, at different times of day, in different light, until you understand, until it enters you.

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

door. She was not a writer herself, but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes,

There is a system of belief adequate to the complexity of experience

The moment you know you know you know.

the ability of the person to figure things out, to learn, to think critically and solve problems is more important.

You haven't read anything until you've comprehended it.

What you really want is to be able to pick up a book and understand what the author is saying in the least amount of time.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

All knowledge arises from a relationship between a knower and an object of knowledge.

People sometimes say: 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' That's true. But language is never far away. To talk about the picture, you may need a thousand words.

Faced with the sentence therapistsneedspecialtreatment we need to know if this is a text about sex crimes or about speech pathology before we can correctly read it aloud.

Good/bad explanation An explanation that is hard/easy to vary while still accounting for what it purports to account for.

They can be understood only by being explained. Fortunately, our best theories embody deep explanations as well as accurate predictions.