Quotes about Understanding

But it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modern communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world

Do not say you agree, disagree, or suspend judgement until you can say "I understand

Anyone who fails to consult the explanatory notes and the list of abbreviations at the beginning of a dictionary has only himself to blame if he is not able to use it well.

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding

2. STUDY THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

4. If the book is a new one with a dust jacket, READ THE PUBLISHER'S BLURB.

Many persons believe that they know how to read because they read at different speeds. But they pause and go slow over the wrong sentences. They pause over the sentences that interest them rather than the ones that puzzle them.

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?

intelligent action depends on knowledge. Knowledge

The questions answered by inspectional reading are: first, what kind of book is it? second, what is it about as a whole? and third, what is the structural order of the work whereby the author develops his conception or understanding of that general subject matter?

The first is: if you can, read more than one history of an event or period that interests you. The second is: read a history not only to learn what really happened at a particular time and place in the past, but also to learn the way men act in all times and places, especially now.

Good controversy should not be a quarrel about assumptions