Quotes About Comprehension

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

It's interesting to see how a lot of people don't see the other side of the coin. Since they haven't been there. Someone might suggest your character say something that they'd never say. It doesn't occur to them that there are people who think differently about something, from another perspective.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

The comprehensible slips away, is transformed; instead of possession one learns connection.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

It is a luxury to be understood.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time.

It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.

a good reader makes a good book

No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible." And

Finally, if you attempt to read this without working through a significant number of exercises (see §0.0.1), I will come to your house and pummel you with [Gr-EGA] until you beg for mercy. It is important to not just have a vague sense of what is true, but to be able to actually get your hands dirty. As Mark Kisin has said, "You can wave your hands all you want, but it still won't make you fly.

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

they have ears, but cannot hear