Comprehend Quotes

465 quotes by 383 authors

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. — Lewis Thomas
Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not… — Ruth Bernhard
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel… — H. L. Mencken
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future,… — Friedrich Schiller
The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order… — Maria Montessori
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we… — John Cheever
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must… — Robert Breault
Itâ€™s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend Godâ€™s plan, I donâ€™t have a pencil with me. — Robert Breault
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at… — Lucy Larcom
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. — John Fowles
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us. — Wendell Berry
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that… — Todd McFarlane
The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend. — Shawn Colvin
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and… — Samuel Johnson
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who… — Paulo Freire
Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend. — Criss Jami
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our… — Ben Marcus
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. — Joy Williams

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