Top 100 Quotes About Comprehension
#1. There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.
Wanda
Ouida
#2. When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.
Anne Rice
#3. Horror gives place to wonder at your true account;
The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
Aeschylus
#4. How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
Robert J. Sawyer
#5. Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#6. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.
Karl Marx
#7. To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.
Daniel D. Palmer
#8. If every statement is incomplete and every expression is situated upon a silent tacit comprehension, then it must be that things are said and are thought by a Speech and by a Thought which we do not have but which has us.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#9. A myth ... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
Christopher Vogler
#10. Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: "When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts." Nothing wounds God so much as pride.
Jean-Baptiste Chautard
#11. The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over.
Louisa May Alcott
#12. And that is where you want to be. Because in His arms, you'll know the beauty of His peace - "the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension" and which guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:7).
Priscilla Shirer
#13. God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God's love for us.
Saint Peter
#14. If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.
Don DeLillo
#15. How shallow to presume war exists only within the physical world. Battles are waged for mind and soul, where things far from comprehension are confronted.
Christopher Hawke
#16. An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Naguib Mahfouz
#17. As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.
Sam Wineburg
#18. Our primary function is speech: questions, and responses selected from memory according to a formula. We speak, but there is little evidence of real comprehension.
Louisa Hall
#19. If you're the kind of person who wants to know what's at the end of the universe, what's at the edge of being ... and comprehension settles on you that you'll never know, despair can well up.
Lydia Millet
#20. Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today ... Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.
Guy P. Harrison
#21. Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.
Bill Vaughan
#22. The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
Maimonides
#23. One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though always with the maximum possible comprehension suited to the purpose.
Felix Alba-Juez
#24. A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#25. That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension
but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!
Dave Hunt
#26. One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
Jane Hirshfield
#27. I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.
Jane Hirshfield
#28. Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.
Henry Beston
#29. Even when you're terrified, or because fear sharpens the mind, you get flashes of blinding comprehension. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#30. It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.
Steven Gould
#31. Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.
John Clellon Holmes
#32. And he learnt how it felt to be seen as a freak: exposed to wonder, invisible to comprehension. About
A. Igoni Barrett
#33. Running is real. It's all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.
Jesse Owens
#34. That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.
Edgar Allan Poe
#35. They had no comprehension of why anyone would seek out a film with an unhappy ending or buy a painting that wasn't pretty.
Lionel Shriver
#36. We have full confidence in Jesus Christ. Our confidence rises as the character of God becomes greater and more trustworthy to our spiritual comprehension. The One with whom we deal is the One who embodies faithfulness and truth-the One who cannot lie.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#37. I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.
John Malkovich
#38. Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.
Rob Brezsny
#39. The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#41. The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
Paulo Freire
#42. Judging the intellect of others where comprehension is lacking, is like a mutt judging the groom of Best in Show.
S.P. Mount
#43. A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.
John Eccles
#44. The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
Lewis Thomas
#45. Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
Ken Danby
#46. At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.
Jane Hirshfield
#47. Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked.
Julie Anne Long
#48. Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
John Dos Passos
#49. Reading builds a scaffold of vocabulary and word associations that facilitate learning new information.
It improves your brain processing speed for text because you have more rapid comprehension.
Peter Rogers
#50. The human-made world is mostly beyond our comprehension. Our daily survival depends on seemingly magical gizmos that provide our food, water, clothing, comfort, transportation, education, well-being, and amusement.
Mark Frauenfelder
#51. Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters.
Leonard Read
#52. Everyone and everything oppresses me, chokes and maddens me; I am troubled by a crushing physical sense of other people's lack of comprehension.
Pessoa, Fernando
#53. What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.
Mark Twain
#54. Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was the last limit. Its banishment as a standard unleashed the inflation monster and leviathan itself, which has swelled beyond comprehension.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#55. Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
Maurice Sendak
#56. He couldn't count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.
J.U. Scribe
#57. Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.
Jane Leavy
#58. Someone could have an outstanding comprehension of a bodybuilding diet and a background in nutrition but not have the work ethic and desire to put it into practice. That person won't be as successful as the person who understands some basics and puts them into action regularly.
Robert Cheeke
#59. Language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.
Fereidoon Yazdi
#60. Without eyes to see and without a mind to make order out of chaos, and so bring comprehension, such a world was where the gods went to die. Nothing witnessed, and so nothing renewed. Nothing seen, and so nothing found. Nothing outside, and so nothing inside.
Steven Erikson
#61. The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.
Ernst Mach
#62. We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.
Thomas Berry
#63. People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.
Leah Hager Cohen
#64. In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
C. B. Van Niel
#65. Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool's gold.
Don Swann II
#66. Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet
Albert Schweitzer
#67. You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.
Mortimer J. Adler
#68. The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension.
Seth
#69. To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.
Michael Card
#71. Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.
Richard Steele
#72. Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.
Brent Weeks
#73. Understand their hatred is beyond human comprehension. They abhor the Creator and so also the creation. Whatever brings joy, whatever brings peace, whatever redeems the dark deed or relieves the terrors of the night and their enemies.
Rick Yancey
#74. Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.
Sherry Turkle
#75. Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension . he is right . most of the time.
Edwin Boring
#76. The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
Samuel Johnson
#77. When learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh.
Matthew Donnelly
#78. I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.
Susanne Bier
#79. And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of comprehension.
Marcel Proust
#80. My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
Thomas A Kempis
#81. He is always there for her,always waiting. The most constant companion anyone could pray for. One of these days she will return to him. She will feel that desire again, that need beyond human comprehension, and they will be together forever.
Carrie Ryan
#82. When people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.
Jodi Picoult
#83. The ability to know one's limitations, to recognize the bounds of one's own comprehension - this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.
Leah Hager Cohen
#84. Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that I possess a better comprehension of its character than do these men who have only to deal with it in the field of literature.
Adolf Hitler
#85. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#86. I am a firm believer that knowledge is power but only if it leads to comprehension.
David Amerland
#87. The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans
in pure principle
we do not and never will know all the principles
R. Buckminster Fuller
#88. I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.
Brian Regan
#89. But God, having as little comprehension of the feminine mind as any male, did not reply.
Ariana Franklin
#90. If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension ... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#91. With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.
Ladislav Sutnar
#92. There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.
Robert Gilpin
#93. One of the advantages of something like Slack is that I tap on the app icon, and it's just the people at my company and just the people I work with. There's a strong boundary there which aids in comprehension. It's one less molecule of glucose in my brain to manage it all.
Stewart Butterfield
#94. In a curious failure of comprehension, I looked alertly about me for possible targets for all this artillery fire, not, apparently, realizing that it was actually ourselves that the enemy gunners were trying for all they were worth to hit.
Ernst Junger
#95. VOREN'S BRUSHSTROKES BEAT a steady cadence against the canvas, pausing only to dip into globs of vibrant paint to be renewed in color, in life, in power. Power to translate reality into dream, dream into emotion, and emotion - transcending comprehension - into its own newly expressed reality.
Nathan Garrison
#96. How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed in space? Do we need to travel everywhere bringing destructive power on our ships, so as to smash anything that runs counter to our understanding?
Stanislaw Lem
#97. Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle in great matters of which their comprehension is usually pretty dim, and have no objection to getting their names and pictures in the papers.
Leslie McFarlane
#98. Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
Alfred Binet
#99. That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel - a novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.
Cris Mazza
#100. Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.
Frederick Lenz
