Comprehends 7 Quotes

#1. The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden.

Henry Mitchell

#3. There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

Brenda Laurel

#5. Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Karl Kraus

#6. That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends - know that ...

Swami Prabhavananda

#7. Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.

George Crabbe

#8. Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.

Jill Stauffer

#9. The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

Guy De Maupassant

#10. We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

Wendell Berry

#11. Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#12. A shadow charmer enjoys brotherhood with the creatures of the night. His emotions cannot be manipulated. Nothing escapes his gaze. He hears and comprehends the secret languages of darkness.

Brandon Mull

#13. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

William Shakespeare

#14. Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Lew Wallace

#15. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#16. Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.

Martin Luther

#18. Though all one's life a fool associates with a wise person,one no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the soup.

Gautama Buddha

#19. Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

Albert Einstein

#20. It's not like we're at a community college and God is at an Ivy League school. It's like we're at a community college and God comprehends all the mysteries and mechanics of the entire universe. We don't even operate in the same stratosphere as God.

Stephen Altrogge

#21. It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."

John G. Lake

#22. Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#23. There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#24. Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

William Deresiewicz

#25. Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development.

Wilhelm Reich

#26. We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

Giordano Bruno

#27. The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is ... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#28. One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.

Irvin D. Yalom

#29. Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them.

Peter Saunders

#30. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Bruno Bettelheim