Comprehend Quotes

465 quotes by 387 authors

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. — Robertson Davies
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres… — Bob Dylan
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. — Arthur Erickson
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. — Arthur Erickson
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 would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange… — Anthony Hopkins
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is… — Hypatia
I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid… — Shirley Jackson
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire… — Jeffrey Kluger
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on… — Milan Kundera
From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in… — Lucy Larcom
I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. — John Lydon
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain… — Maimonides
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible… — John Malkovich
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. — Michael Morpurgo
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages. — Guru Nanak
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend. — Novalis
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal
I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting… — Robert Plant

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