Quotes About Comprehension

Among the many benefits of Socratic Method is that it causes students to reach their own insights and express them in their own words.

what is expressed by the learner is a hundred times more productive learning than what is expressed to the learner

it would be well worth your time to start keeping a codebook, listing all the objects, people, and situations that seem to recur in your Image Streams together with what you think they might mean

Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.

Rzecz prosta, im m?drzejszy czytelnik, tym i ksi??ka oka?e si? m?drzejsza; im za? czytelnik g?upszy i bardziej ja?owy, tym i ksi??ka b?dzie g?upsza.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

bu wen bu rou wen zi, wen zi bu ruo jian zhi. jian zhi bu ruo zhi zi, zhi zi bu ruo xing zi. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. But involve me, I will understand. XUN ZI (PHILOSOPHER, WARRING STATES PERIOD, 475–221 BC)

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Poate c?, de fapt, nu era nici un caiet al lui Dumnezeu, ci în întregul univers se aflau dou? feluri de fiinÅ£e – un num?r de fiinÅ£e special înzestrate, care puteau înÅ£elege o parte din aceast? ordine, ÅŸi noi toÅ£i ceilalÅ£i, care de-abia puteam aprecia descoperirile lor.

If that were the case, they wouldn't be so difficult to understand and there'd be no need for mathematicians.

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

I'm not expressing myself very well—' 'Dexter, I understand you perfectly, that's the problem—

I know there is no point in haranguing him because he will just shut down, but I want to cover every angle.

Our newly capacious machines can get closer to understanding it than we can, and they, as machines, don't really understand anything at all.

Before they read words, children are reading pictures.

The said question of the said animal in its entirety comes down to knowing not whether the animal speaks but whether one can know what respond means. And how to distinguish a response from a reaction.

Sorry, Dave. My grandpa used to tell me, toward the end when he was going crazy, that talking through a dog ain't like talking through a sausage. Molly is in here with me and I gotta compete with the barker.

You can never read too much into anything