Quotes About Comprehension

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read.

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.

teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

Much learning does not teach sense.

And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire.

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.