Comprehend Quotes

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Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires… — Baltasar Gracian
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have… — Adam Phillips
...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and… — Per Petterson
Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the childrenâ€™s strength and wastes… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. â€˜Behold, just now the world became perfect!â€™â€”thus thinks every woman when… — Friedrich Nietzsche
. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other… — John Boyne
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should… — Bernhard Schlink
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. — Charlotte Bronte
I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance,… — Edgar Allan Poe
I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend. The times call for great things, but great things in the… — Jeffrey R. Holland
I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I donâ€™t care how condescending that sounds, itâ€™s true.… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though… — Jane Austen
We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new… — Louis Sachar
[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend. — James Joyce
After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who… — Jodi Picoult
How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself? — David Mazzucchelli
With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not… — H P Lovecraft
...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most. — Gregory Maguire
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates… — Albert Einstein
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being? — Edgar Allan Poe

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