Quotes About Comprehension

The dang man could tell a good story fluffed with terms like gonna do and want to do but he never quite grasped the idea of did.

Holiness is neither that passionate love of the beginning, nor the tormenting anxiety of the long waits and of the moonlight walks, but is that superior form of friendship that is given this time a true eternal look, of comprehension, of acceptance of the self sacrifice for friendship, understanding and complementarity.

It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

A loving wife hears even what goes unsaid.

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesnt say.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

Do you ever speak a known language? Sanskrit, perhaps?

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

You 'ain't found out yet we're women-folks, Nanny Penn," said she. "You 'ain't seen enough of men-folks yet to. One of these days you'll find it out, an' then you'll know that we know only what men-folks think we do, so far as any use of it goes, an' how we'd ought to reckon men-folks in with Providence an' not complain of what they do any more than we do of the weather.

Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.

Put in more sobering terms, only one-third of twenty-first-century American children now read with sufficient understanding and speed at the exact age when their future learning depends on it. The fourth grade represents a Maginot Line between learning to read and learning to use reading to think and learn. More disturbing altogether, close to half

communication occurs despite the solitary nature of the reading act—

My for example is woofs.

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.

Drum lest mit Maß, doch lest genug, Dann wird's euch wohl ergehen. Bloß Bücher fressen macht nicht klug. Man muss sie auch verstehen.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

modo inexplicable, les estábamos comprendiendo.