“The second sense is the one in which a person tries to read something that at first he does not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is initially better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding. Such communication between unequals must be possible, or else one person could never learn from another, either through speech or writing. **Here by “learning” is meant understanding more, not remembering more information that has the same degree of intelligibility as other information you already possess**.” ([Location 236](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004PYDAPE&location=236)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[knowledge-workers]], [[reading-books]], [[Richard Feynman]] **Source** -- [[20250103084100 - B - How to Read a Book]]