Quotes about Comprehension

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together, and all their different meanings make one new one. Each writer writes the missing parts to the other writer's story. And the whole story is what I'm after.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.

Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

ACCIPIENT  (ACCI'PIENT)   n.s.[accipiens, Lat.] A receiver, perhaps sometimes used for recipient.Dict.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.