Comprehension Quotes

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

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

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

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

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

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

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.

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 vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

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