Quotes About Comprehension

The ears are better listeners than the tongue.

Repetitive variety - you use as many different ways of articulating the point as necessary to give everyone in the audience a chance to absorb and comprehend the message.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.

I would later discover this was one of the key problems humans had with numerical understanding—their nervous systems simply weren't up to it.

After all, humans – especially adult ones – want to believe the most mundane truths possible. They need to, in order to stop their world-views, and their sanity, from capsizing and plunging them into the vast ocean of the incomprehensible.

Nu conteaza ce cisteati, ci cum citesti. Povestitorul poate incepe o poveste, dar are nevoie de un cititor pentru ca ea sa prinda viata, iar asta nu se va intampla niciodata la fel.[...] Tot ce poate face scriitorul e sa ofere fitilul, de preferat uscat. Cititorul trebuie sa aprinda flacara.

ese era uno de los problemas fundamentales que tienen los humanos con la comprensión numérica: simple y llanamente, su sistema nervioso no está capacitado.

Minäkin hymyilin, ja iloni siitä, että joku ymmärsi minua, tuntui ankkuroivan sieluni paikoilleen.

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About how human brains take complex information about the world and simplify it, so that when a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called 'tree'. To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

It was perfect. I mean . . . not that anything really happened." "Oh, George, it's not how much you do, it's what you feel while you're doing it. You know that. But do you know the real truth?" "No, What?" "The real truth is that whoever you love will be just like me, and not just in the fog. Understand?" "No." "You will

Irony alert: the most important news story in the world is the inability of the ordinary news consumer to understand the news. This is no dig against readers. The world has just grown so complex that the majority of serious issues are beyond the understanding of non-specialists.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Not deep the poet sees, but wide. –

If you get the man right (or the woman, of course), you get the world right.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Every reader of your program should understand what your functions compute without having to read the function itself. A multi-function program should also come with a purpose statement. Indeed, good programmers write two purpose statements: one for the reader who may have to modify the code and another one for the person who wishes to use the program but not read it.

it is an achievement, too: to be wholly understood by one person. [Édouard Manet]

It is so difficult to endow our words with meaning, to talk sense to each other.

Current thinking about reading (Luke & Freebody, 1999; Pearson, 2001) suggests that we should help our students to comprehend at these deeper levels—levels that require them to think beyond the information on the printed page and critically analyze the author's message. Reading from a critical perspective

He would never know what he knew. That was loneliness.