Comprehend Quotes
465 quotes by 383 authors
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Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
— Lewis Thomas
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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
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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
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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
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The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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
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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
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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
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It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.
— Robert Breault
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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
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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
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
— Wendell Berry
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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
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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
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The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.
— Shawn Colvin
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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
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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
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Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.
— Criss Jami
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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
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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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