Quotes About Comprehension

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The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected.

A story that needs to have words said about it, is a story that does not contain all its own right words. -- Introduction to Varley's "Persistence Of Vision" collection

Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

because looking is just the start of understanding, just its surface, the top layer of any understanding, the girl is saying

It was just that the literal meaning itself wasn´t immediately comprehensible. That doesn´t mean it didn´t mean.

Hello, he said. What you reading? Elisabeth showed him her empty hands. Does it look like I'm reading anything? she said. Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

A child grows up saying words that the rest of the world tells the child aren't words. But the child and everybody the child holds dear all know that the words mean, and what the words mean. Listen, that child will be equipped, from the very beginning. For everything, dark and light, heavy and light, that life will bring to that child.

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Sargy always had the capacities of a cormorant, so he is able to swallow her whole, not having to think about her as she is going down must make it easier

I am the only language I can understand.

because you already know what I mean. You read my mind.

If you don't understand me, then it must be experienced.

I read quickly, flitting and sipping, skipping the boring bits and seizing on the oddities and inconsistencies which are often ignored by the scholars since they interfere with the measured and coherent approach to the matter at hand.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.

do with each other?" Claudia smiled a knowing smile.

But all these truths, woven together, might give us a picture of what is true. That is why it's important to know all the different stories. We can never see all the sky at once.

Most writers in older lands despaired of being understood by those who had not lived their language.

Quando se vê um fato que não se compreende, e quanto mais extraordinário ele é, mais suspeitas desperta e mais o pensamento se esforça para lhe dar uma causa vulgar; se ele, porém, for compreendido, é logo admitido por ter uma razão de ser, desaparecendo assim o maravilhoso e o sobrenatural

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Chinese proverb