Quotes About Comprehension

The word itself—dyslexia—is ironically very hard for dyslexic people to spell correctly

hiperespecialización1 impide ver la globalidad (al fragmentarla en parcelas) y también la esencia (al disolverla).

Teach me to speak the language of men.

P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.

P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions

Breadth of mind not infrequently accompanies limitation of knowledge.

don't understand why you would want

But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . .

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

The one woman knew but did not understand; the other, it seemed, understood without knowing.

Well, we seem to have it.

Everything can be simplified. With enough simplification and enough patience on the part of the parent, anything can be simplified to the point that even very young children can begin to understand it.

Let us read with method, and to propose to ourselves an to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

Thanks for putting that in terms I can easily grasp,' said Malcolm, without showing the patronizing bitch the slightest sign of irony.

Other people knew what they were meant to say, knew what they were meant to mean, and other people still - otherer people - knew what the other people meant when they said it.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong in the ranks of devoutly religious men.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.