Top 50 Comprehends Quotes
#1. Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
William Whewell
#2. That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends - know that ...
Swami Prabhavananda
#3. Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
Karl Kraus
#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. 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
#6. Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Oliver Ellsworth
#7. Madness it is to hope that human minds
can ever understand the Infinite
that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.
Be satisfied with quia unexplained,
O Human race! If you knew everything,
no need for Mary to have borne a son.
Dante Alighieri
#8. Man, as we realize if we reflect for a moment, never perceives anything fully or comprehends anything completely.
C. G. Jung
#9. A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
Madame De Stael
#10. Man can destroy and plunder, earn and accumulate, invent and discover, but he is great because his soul comprehends all.
Rabindranath Tagore
#11. A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.
Charles Horton Cooley
#12. Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#13. Fuck words, nothing spoken
comprehends the defiantly ephemeral.
I take my incompleteness with the rest, an exile
in any language.
Eric Gamalinda
#14. Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.
George Crabbe
#15. Friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.
Mary Astell
#16. Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#17. The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#18. For when the Law of Price declares that a good actually commands a particular price, and explains why it does so, it of course implies that the good is able to command this price, and explains why it is able to do so. The Law of Price comprehends the Law of Exchange-Value.
Ludwig Von Mises
#19. An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.
Paul Reps
#20. When a person understands the problem that vexes them, and comprehends the choices that created them, they begin a journey of the mind seeking personal liberation from suffering.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#21. It is there, in the final moments, for people whose farthest horizon has always been tomorrow, that one comprehends the profound tragedy circumscribing the life of the proletariat the world over.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#22. The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless..
Niccolo Machiavelli
#24. The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
Luc De Clapiers
#25. 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
#26. Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.
Albert Einstein
#27. Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.
Jack Henry Abbott
#28. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
Bruno Bettelheim
#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. One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
Irvin D. Yalom
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
Michel De Montaigne
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#44. Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
Lew Wallace
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#49. 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
#50. 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
