"Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science.……" — Henry Beston

More Comprehension Quotes

This quote is filed under Comprehension Quotes, one of 211 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines… — Karen Armstrong
• Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the… — J C Ryle
• Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as… — 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… — Thomas Berry
• This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the… — Winston Churchill
• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
• The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless,… — Giordano Bruno
• Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love… — Joan Miro
• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible… — Albert Einstein
• Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and… — John Stuart Mill

See all 211 Comprehension Quotes »