Quotes about Comprehension
The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it...
- Charles Swindoll
To know. Not to know about.
- Ted Dekker
God's goodness transcends all thought, all comprehension
- Julian of Norwich
One thing we do know: We don't comprehend the love of Jesus Christ.
- Brennan Manning
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
- Henry David Thoreau
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not all books are as dull as their readers.
- Henry David Thoreau
Der Mensch behauptet, viel zu wissen; Doch seht nur, wie sie überschießen, Die Künste und die Wissenschaften, Die tausend Errungenschaften; Der Wind, der weht, Ist alles, was er versteht.
- Henry David Thoreau
We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
- Henry David Thoreau
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
- Confucius
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.
- Marty Rubin