Comprehension Quotes
211 quotes by 174 authors
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An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which…
— Unknown Author
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You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
— Nikola Tesla
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We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form -…
— Dee Hock
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Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills…
— Unknown Author
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series…
— Horace Mann
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The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s…
— Jacque Fresco
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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied…
— Robert J. Sawyer
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And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only…
— James Dillet Freeman
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It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side…
— Hugh Hefner
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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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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The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.
— Wally Amos
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People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake…
— Leah Hager Cohen
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The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.
— Leah Hager Cohen
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You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any…
— Hillary Clinton
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use…
— Unknown Author
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