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Quotes about Comprehension

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
- Jonathan Edwards
Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.
- AA Milne
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
a good reader makes a good book
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, — a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a property inside the horizon which no guy has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, this is, the poet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?
- Ravi Zacharias
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Yossarian
- Joseph Heller