Comprehension Quote by Mark Twain Download Open image “What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.” — Mark Twain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comprehension Men Religion Time Want What a man wants
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God. — Victoria Jackson Copy Share Image
“We need to understand that a man can never lay down his religion and act as a religionless person.” — Joseph C. Morecraft III Copy Share Image
How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind… — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life. — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to the building up of a vast array of wonderful church edifices, and starving half her citizens to accomplish it. She is today one vast museum of magnificence and misery. All the churches in an ordinary American… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know-even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction-than to gain eternal life at… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it… — Enoch Powell Copy Share
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these… — Julian Huxley Copy Share
I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models… — Alexander Tsiaras Copy Share Image
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
