Cannot Comprehend Quotes

32 quotes by 31 authors

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. — Samuel Johnson
I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity.… — Soren Kierkegaard
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it canâ€™t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is… — Adyashanti
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You… — Everett Ruess
Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain. — Daniel Topolski
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere… — Bernadette Devlin
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us. — Martin Luther
The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend â€” and we cannot comprehend God; we can only… — Immanuel Kant
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a… — Kenny Smith
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us. — Wendell Berry
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact. — Daniel Kahneman
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted… — Arthur Erickson
I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. — John Lydon
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages. — Guru Nanak
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empireâ€”a crackpot machineâ€”that the specialists cannot comprehend and… — Edward Abbey
I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they… — Tom Robbins

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