It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning…

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use…

— Isaac Asimov

We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of…

— Bernie Sanders

“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that…

— Kory Stamper

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent…

— Enoch Powell

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be…

— George Bernard Shaw

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those…

— Paulo Freire

There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist…

— Julian Huxley

I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and…

— Aleister Crowley

The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models…

— Alexander Tsiaras

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of…

— Winston Churchill

“The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were.”

— Anonymous

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling,…

— Thomas Jefferson

My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was…

— Nas