Comprehending Quotes
45 quotes by 43 authors
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and…
— David Halberstam
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The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is…
— Allan Bloom
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Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.
— Winston Churchill
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.
— Roy Schafer
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a…
— Gregory Benford
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No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern…
— Roger Penrose
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Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities…
— Richardson Wright
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Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.
— Faith Ringgold
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The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the…
— Noah Webster
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It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's…
— David Wenham
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The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want…
— Albert Einstein
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... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results…
— Paulo Freire
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In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our…
— Ben Marcus
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
— Daniel Dennett
Who Wrote These Comprehending Quotes
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