Our Comprehension Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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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
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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
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Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.
— John Templeton
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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
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We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension…
— Edward Albee
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What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That…
— Newt Gingrich
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There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do…
— John F. Kennedy
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How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And…
— Pope Clement I
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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 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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That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within…
— Dave Hunt
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The camera... on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us of…
— Walter Benjamin
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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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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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Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.
— Timothy Keller
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Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be…
— Gene Robinson
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I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our…
— Freeman Dyson
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Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.
— Rob Brezsny
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If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is…
— Wendell Berry
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