Comprehended Quotes
49 quotes by 47 authors
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If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended…
— Archibald Alexander
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The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.
— Theodore Dreiser
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Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of…
— Gautama Buddha
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In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in…
— James Madison
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor…
— Lactantius
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The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "…some…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to…
— Ken Follett
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I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete.…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us…
— Ernst Junger
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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
— Maya Angelou
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And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I love you,†I said, causing his face to contort in pain. “I’m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves…
— Abbi Glines
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As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and…
— Johan Huizinga
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What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that…
— James Branch Cabell
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The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which…
— Giordano Bruno
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