Comprehension Quotes

211 quotes by 174 authors

The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public… — Evgeny Morozov
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding… — Gordon B. Hinckley
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and… — Edgar Allan Poe
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook… — Osip Mandelstam
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of… — Ezra Pound
Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness… — Brent Weeks
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move,… — Elizabeth Kostova
I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving… — Jodi Picoult
Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond;… — John L. Parker Jr.
I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. — Barbara Kingsolver
Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old… — Bertolt Brecht
Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension. — Bill Watterson
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she… — Garth Stein
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could… — Tom Robbins
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not… — R. Scott Bakker
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. — Giordano Bruno
...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter… — Jodi Picoult
I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance,… — Edgar Allan Poe

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