There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is beyond my comprehension why today in America, hundreds of thousands of bright young people are unable to go to college… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous… — John Green Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something. "The manuscript you… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I believe that in our own individual ways, God takes us to the grove or the mountain or the temple and there… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version… — Seth Copy Share Image
My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after,… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
“The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety;… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In order to produce the satisfaction of comprehension, there first needs to be the process of comprehension. Furthermore, the overarching idea at… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image