Quotes About Comprehension

We walk in darkness with phantoms and spectres we know not of, and our little world plunges blindly through abysses toward a goal of which we have no conception. That thought itself is a blow at our beliefs and comprehension. We used to content ourselves by thinking we knew all about our world, at least; but now it is different, and we wonder if we really know anything, or if there can be safety and peace anywhere in the wide universe.

That's probably because they said a lot of other things, as well.

To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;

We do not create meaning out of a text; rather, we seek to find the meaning that is already there.

The important thing to note is that we humans have the power to "see," to be directly aware of, to directly experience a wide range of things, many of which are not subject to sensory awareness with the five senses.

The more you know about something, the more you're able to see when you look at it, the more you can remember about it, and the less tied you will be to following a mindless series of steps in working with what you know.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a common knowledge is already there. The silence bound them as no words ever could.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

If you are not confused, you don´t know what is going on.

We needed fish, really, but I could not speak Fish.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

La conciencia surge sólo cuando el entender es captar patrones comunes.

Understanding is power and whoever has it has everything.

Do you know how many species will be made extinct by these games?' he demanded furiously. 'Good grief, what is it about you humans? You think you're the only thing on this planet that's worth anything, that you can ravage nature just to show your superiority. Can you even comprehend a fraction of what's being done here?' Then he calmed down just as quickly, became sorrowful instead of angry. 'No. you probably can't. And I expect you wouldn't care if you could.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

That's why I don't buy it when people say children don't know. That they're too young to understand. If they can walk and talk, they can understand. You look at how much growing a baby does in the first few years of its life—crawling, walking, talking, laughing. The brain just changing and changing. You can't tell me all of it's not becoming a part of their blood. Their memory.

Iris didn't understand his happiness. How this was so absolutely enough for him.

Trust me, it takes talent to converse with a cat

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

The time for comprehending can be reduced to the instant of the glance, but this glance can include in its instant all the time needed for comprehending.