Quotes About Comprehension

In the void, there is no distinction of east and west. Gwen blinked slightly at that. I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well.

Honestly. He sometimes felt that humans simply had to be deliberately obtuse. What was so difficult about understanding civilized and excellently enunciated speech?

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears.

When the Almighty speaks to men, He always does it in voices they can understand

Describing something helps to define it, to give it limits, to set guardrails of understanding around it.

How are you going to talk to someone who has no idea?" Grimm said, nodding. "How can you explain something you can't find words for? How can you get someone else to understand something for which they have no frame of reference?

That's the thing about knowledge, though. The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

She was right. I was just about too tired to understand English, but she sounded pretty right.

Do you understand the rules as I have given them to you?" "Yep," I said. "Yes," said Arianna. "Have you anything else to say?" "Always," I said. "But it can wait.

Ya te lo dije» preventivos —señalé—. Ahora sí que lo he visto todo.

The language I wanted from him did not exist in his world.

Of course he wasn't listening to what I said but to all of his imagined resonances of what I said.

Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head by reading

Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening

It's more common for the students I've worked with to read too much than to read too little. They use reading as a distraction, or as a way to avoid having to think their own thoughts, or as a magic charm: "If I read everything in the field, then I'll be able to write and be sure I haven't missed anything.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language

I had never before understood what "despair" meant, and I am not sure that I understand now, but I understood that year.

This is a case in which I need more than words to find the meaning. This is a case in which I need whatever it is I think or believe to be penetrable, if only for myself.

This is a case in which I need more than words to find the meaning.

No sabem res dels altres, ni ens importa; en canvi, voldriem que els altres ens coneguessin a fons. El nostre afany de ser compresos només es pot comparar amb la nostra desgana per comprendre ningú.

He even listened to more than her sounds, because Tiger Lily was a girl of few words. He listened with his eyes, watched her facial expressions, judged body language, and therefore read Tiger Lily better than anyone else.

You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours.