Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image “We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
