Top Comprehension Quotes

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

Comprehension Definition

(n.) The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.

(n.) That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.

(n.) The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.

(n.) The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.

(n.) A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure...

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a...

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our em...

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned....

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you'...

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying v...

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension....

The Relationship Between God And I Is Beyond Human Comprehension, Therefore, Pay No Attention To Any Descriptive Section About My Religious Affiliation, Otherwise, You Would Be Accused Of Reading The...

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.

Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something.The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is mor...

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

Comprehension is the ability to follow an explanation.Understanding is the ability to be able to lead if needed.

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.