Quotes About Comprehension

I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.

When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to.

I stopped speaking when I realized I was no longer using any verbs or nouns, or making any sense

Girl understand each other in a way boys never will.

To feel so known, so understood. It's such a wonderful feeling...

Yes, of course I know what that means." I have no idea what that means.

But the important thing, the real thing, is Chris and I understand each other, which I think counts for a lot more than people realize.

Um, I think they'll figure it out when he's not at the airport, Gogo." Gogo is my nickname for Margot. As in go-go boots.

There are many ways to tell if someone is a bit thick. You can sit them in a room and ask them to push various bits of plastic into a wooden box. Or you can ask them to describe a cloud. Or you can carefully measure the distance between their eyes, the height of their forehead or the length of their arm.

The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Let us go back a little farther and read on until we come to these words, for we must not seek to learn the whole meaning of the section, from the concluding parts of it, or, if I may so say, from the tail of the chapter.

The whole truth is not taught in a single passage: we must always bear in mind the exact point of an illustration.

One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to.

We are not just information processors, we are meaning makers.

capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic of modern economics. That is why this is a history not of economic ideas, but of ideas beyond the capitalist economy.

students ingested mountains of facts and arithmetic, but were bereft of analytic ability and utterly incapable of understanding sophisticated prose or poetry. They were taught not to reason but to cram.

read widely because almost nothing has been everywhere applied.

better than any person living there, and thought she knew what to

there is a distinction between understanding and sympathizing.

Ta sammub uhkelt minema, sest tal õnnestus meid, viimase klassi gümnasiste, sõnalahingus võita. Tõepoolest, tema arvamus on siin tüüpiline, sellega kohtud siin üha jälle ega oska ka midagi arukat vastata, sest kui asja üksnes sellest küljest võtta, siis kaob arusaamine teistest seostest.

Ty:It sounds pretty when you say it, but I have no clue what the hell you're talking about. Imogen:It's Shakespeare, she said. Ty:Well, I was pretty sure it wasn't Kenny Chesney.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.)

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.