Comprehension Quotes

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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can… — Karen Armstrong
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can… — J C Ryle
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the… — Anzia Yezierska
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. — Alfred Binet
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension. — Thomas Berry
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every… — Winston Churchill
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it… — Isaac Asimov
The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite… — Giordano Bruno
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which… — Joan Miro
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,… — Albert Einstein
Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly… — John Stuart Mill
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment,… — Ernest Starling
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society,… — John Eccles
The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension. — John Templeton
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement… — Leonard Read
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they… — John Henry Newman
The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we… — John Lennon

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