Quotes about Comprehension

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

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.

We are wiser than we know.

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.

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

a good reader makes a good book

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

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, — a possession for all time.

There is a property inside the horizon which no guy has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, this is, the poet.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

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

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Yossarian