Comprehension Quotes
211 Comprehension quotes by 174 unique authors
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Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.
— Oliver Lodge
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History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby…
— Oswald Spengler
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt…
— Maya Angelou
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The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.
— Martin Luther
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Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though…
— Saint Augustine
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Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other…
— Raph Koster
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The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious…
— Paul Cezanne
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I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
— Unknown Author
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What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear,…
— John Owen
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The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest…
— Isaac Newton
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It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.
— Daniel Tosh
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Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with.…
— John Dos Passos
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I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.
— Winston Churchill
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The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child…
— Maria Montessori
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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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