Comprehension Quotes
Jill Telford
Don't just read to read. Read to understand.
2628Matthew Donnelly
When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life.
3554 Bruno Bettelheim
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
4217 Niccolò Machiavelli
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.
1709 Tim Fargo
The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.
4477 Richard Mitchell
Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading-in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don't do the other simply because you do the one.
4144 Neil Postman
The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?
4609 Alberto Caeiro
I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.
My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly
Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.
3037 Christopher Hawke
How shallow to presume war exists only within the physical world. Battles are waged for mind and soul, where things far from comprehension are confronted.
3839 Claudio Magris
Debemos ser capaces - algo extremadamente difícil - de decir no sólo sí o no a una determinada realidad y también a las personas amadas, sino que es necesario continuar amándolas incluso condenando sus acciones y continuar condenando sus acciones aunque sin dejar de amarlas.
2422 Jiddu Krishnamurti
Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.
1702 Michael Bassey Johnson
Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.
3201 Paulo Freire
The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
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