Comprehend Quotes
465 quotes by 387 authors
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He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power…
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with…
— Wendell Berry
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches…
— Milan Kundera
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
— Voltaire
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write…
— Haruki Murakami
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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will…
— Aldous Huxley
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Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or…
— Dan Brown
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Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a…
— Dean Koontz
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You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that." And it was memories like that that…
— Richelle Mead
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Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the…
— Salman Rushdie
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That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything…
— Albert Einstein
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There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.
— Max Lucado
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Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us…
— Harlan Coben
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As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple.…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty…
— Gene Stratton-Porter
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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty,…
— Elizabeth Bear
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But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Giving style†to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Arthur’s fingers tighten on the silver-braided hilt: see how naturally it fits his hand! He pulls. The Sword of Britain slides from its stone sheath.…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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