Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't.… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension,… — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prior knowledge is vital to comprehension because writers omit information.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension. — Ladislav Sutnar Copy Share Image
“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel. My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly Because the suit… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games… — Raph Koster Copy Share Image
“The burden of being human is that we are blessed with phenomenal comprehension, but unfortunately we are not granted the ability to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the Comprehension Hypothesis,12 elaborated by Stephen Krashen in the early 1980s. It holds that one factor above all is responsible for second… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“We tend to teach comprehension as a series of “reading strategies” that can be practiced and mastered. Unfortunately it really doesn’t work… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“They knew that you breathed and you slept and you worked, but they didn’t know that you read. Such a thing was… — Margaret Powell Copy Share Image
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an… — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief?… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
