Very young children love and demand stories, and can…

My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just…

— George Saunders

“We, for our own part, simply call ourselves "we." "We" are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it…

— Salman Rushdie

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

— Lauren Groff

Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is…

— Anne Ursu

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them…

— Sarah Polley

“It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and stop telling them stories they can understand.”

— Howard Barker

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

— Manuel Puig

We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero…

— Chris Pine

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

— Salman Rushdie

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and…

— Oliver Sacks

[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made…

— Catherine Camus

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,…

— Philip Larkin

It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I…

— Tarek Saab

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for…

— Alexis Carrel