Quotes about Comprehension

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

Know what you are talking about.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.

May God help us to judge ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through His poverty, be made rich. "Lord, God, speak to my own heart and give me to know Thy Holy will and the joy of walking in it. Amen.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

I have a mind myself and recognize Mind when I meet with it in any guise.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.