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Quotes about Comprehension

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
- Herman Melville
The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
God says Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The distinction between objective and personal thinking must truly first be learned. Many people never learn this (look at our colleagues in the ministry! among others).
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
- John F. Kennedy
To understand is to forgive.
- Ernest Hemingway
You did not have to like it because you understood it.
- Ernest Hemingway
See, the 'small stuff' is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore 'small stuff,' claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- 'small stuff'.
- Andy Andrews
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
- DH Lawrence
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
- JRR Tolkien
Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.
- Robert Frost