Comprehend Quotes
465 quotes by 387 authors
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That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.
— Ian Gardner
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they…
— A. D. Coleman
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I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my…
— Socrates
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The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is…
— Adyashanti
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Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking…
— Timothy Keller
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Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
— Hesiod
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A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can…
— Bob Geldof
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.
— Jean Chretien
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I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would…
— Jean Chretien
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"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing…
— Kenny Smith
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If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past…
— Rajneesh
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The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to…
— Frederick Winslow Taylor
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The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
— Richard M. Weaver
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I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware,…
— Victor Pelevin
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I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.
— Marc Bolan
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In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding—in…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to…
— Baron d'Holbach
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