Comprehend Quotes
465 quotes by 383 authors
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It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives…
— Henri Poincare
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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the…
— Benjamin Tucker
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O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded…
— George Whitefield
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in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking…
— E E Cummings
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and…
— Edward Abbey
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I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldnt give…
— Kate Chopin
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
— Wallace Stegner
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If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..." If the veil were rent today, and the great God who…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I…
— Flann O'Brien
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They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it…
— Galileo Galilei
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What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a…
— Albert Einstein
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We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different…
— Albert Einstein
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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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