Quotes about Comprehension

Find and interpreting the important words.

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

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.

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?

Some writers have excellent "control"; they know exactly what they want to convey, and they convey it precisely and accurately

you have to discover the meaning of a word you do not understand by using the meanings of all the other words in the context that you do understand.

your primary obligation is not to become competent in the subject matter but instead to understand the problem.

Francis Bacon once remarked that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Reading a book analytically is chewing and digesting it.