Quotes About Comprehension

Betty's accent was everything Cent's wasn't-deep and New England. Her ending R sounds were more like an H, and her word choices…they'd all but needed dictionaries to understand each other when they'd met the year before.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

As the writer, I know, but does my reader?

As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know.

unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don't know what you're talking about.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. — Marie Curie

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

that if you don't read nobody does

I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better.

scope doesn't creep; understanding grows. And

We can both read the same document, but have a different understanding of it.

Scope doesn't creep; understanding grows.

Quick words did not always mean a quick mind.

I read as easily as I breathe.

Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature.

As I adjusted to the light, the Crawler kept changing at a lightning pace, as if to mock my ability to comprehend it. It was a figure within a series of refracted panes of glass. It was a series of layers in the shape of an archway. It was a great sluglike monster ringed by satellites of even odder creatures. It was a glistening star.

Cada día sabemos más y entendemos menos.

Si no puede explicarlo de manera simple, es porque no lo ha entendido lo suficiente.

Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily

You must first study the basic subjects within your own understanding...

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily I began to talk.