Comprehend Quotes
465 quotes by 387 authors
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The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world…
— Oswald Spengler
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We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we…
— Jerry A. Coyne
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If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
— Edward Teller
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The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things…
— Richard P. Feynman
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The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in…
— Galileo Galilei
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We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without…
— Marty Natalegawa
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely,…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question,
— Milan Kundera
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God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it.…
— Thomas Merton
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
— Vernon Howard
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Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who…
— Wilhelm Reich
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To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a…
— John Hall Gladstone
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People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more…
— Ted Simon
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Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong…
— Tsutomu Ohshima
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Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?
— Laozi
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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
— Laozi
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Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.
— Lee H. Hamilton
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Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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