Comprehend Quotes

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.