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"That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself." »Tom Gates
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." »Henri Bergson
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"Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions." »Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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"Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions." »Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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"He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed." »C. C. Colton
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"A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it." »Israel Zangwill
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"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny." »Norman Cousins
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"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether." »Socrates, In "Phaedo," sct. 98, by Plato.
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"I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Who can tell Men?s hearts? The purest comprehend Such contradictions, and can blend The force to bear, the power to feel, The tender bud, the tempered steel." »Hindu Drama
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"People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled." »Norman Mailer
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"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." »Ludwig van Beethoven
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"There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless." »Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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"There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend." »Ludwig van Beethoven
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"Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." »Ludwig van Beethoven
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"People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." »Albert Einstein
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"America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side." »Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984
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"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." »Bill Wulf
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"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." »Harry Emerson Fosdick
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"To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men." »Albert Einstein
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"We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other." »Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
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"We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other." »Lewis Thomas
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"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness." »Albert Einstein
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"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." »Albert Einstein
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