If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Human life is beyond comprehension.
I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a complete self-delusion and that I didn't really have any comprehension of what it was like to see your entire life go catastrophically wrong in a matter of moments.
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
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