Quotes About Comprehension

the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

should know. Though

He knew what he didn't know. Dorian Purcell, on the other hand, seemed not to know what he didn't know.

He'd been reading at a college level since he was seven years old, which maybe didn't mean a whole lot, considering that many college graduates didn't seem to know anything.

Your favorite author? This was an important question. I'd dated men who had never read a book. Reading was a passion of mine and I couldn't imagine being involved with someone who didn't understand the importance of books and stories.

Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

I listen," she said simply. "To what folk say—and what they don't.

How old was Jem when he finally learned to tell jokes? You remember how he got the form of jokes but didn't really understand the idea of content?" "What's the difference between a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a button and a sock?" she mimicked, catching Jem's breathless excitement to a T. "A Ã¢â'¬Â¦ BUFFALO! HAHAHAHAHA!

pour la première fois, je compris la sévérité des dictons écossais concernant la paresse. L'oisiveté n'était pas qu'un signe de décrépitude morale, mais une insulte à l'ordre naturel des choses. Certes

It's a wise man who kens the limits of his knowledge

he realized, with the flicker of surprise that attends recognition of things already long known

she became aware that

I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

Me personally, I think that when I take my time with something, it comes out a lot better, because I can really, really get my point across, and if I see that like, this might be a little too deep, I figure out a way to dumb it down so that everybody can understand where I'm going.

My English is good because I have a good ear.

Some players listen with one ear only.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.