Top 30 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Comprehending" (2022)

"Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Humans #World #Understanding

"The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Able #Infinity #Goodness

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

--- Albert Einstein

#Words Of Wisdom #Perceive #Explaining Things

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

--- Albert Einstein

#Scientific Discovery #Understanding And Love #Understanding Things

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer."

--- Albert Einstein

#Want #Knows #Details

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."

--- Albert Einstein

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Joy

"Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural."

--- Alexander Graham Bell

#Ifs #People #Knows

"Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge."

--- Alexis Carrel

#Science #Reality #Method

"The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such."

--- Allan Bloom

#Most Powerful #Behave #Avoiding

"People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life."

--- Young-Ha Kim

#People #Knows #Know How

"Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth."

--- Winston Churchill

#People #Views #Elderly

"The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena."

--- William John Macquorn Rankine

#Theory #Law #May

"The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying."

--- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#Edifice #Criticism #Disappear

"In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track."

--- Ben Marcus

#Ifs #Knows #Mind

"The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created"

--- Walter Bagehot

#May #Lasts #Long

"To understand is to forgive."

--- Blaise Pascal

#Understanding #Comprehensive #Forgiving

"Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up."

--- Blaise Pascal

#Ends #Secret #Made

"I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both."

--- Brandon Sanderson

#Giving #Thinking #Earth

"To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking."

--- Byron Katie

#Thinking #Comprehending

"[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes."

--- Catherine Camus

#Thinking #Knows #Facts

"We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes."

--- Cecilia Dart-Thornton

#Giving #Ends #Laughing

"Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview."

--- Charles Colson

#Way #Reality #Study

"This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme"

--- Charles Spurgeon

#Office #Persons #Whole

"It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it."

--- Tarek Saab

#Persons #Greater #Sin

"When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little."

--- Stephen Spender

#Masters #Littles #Rich

"When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority."

--- Criss Jami

#People #Divine #Different

"Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture."

--- Daniel Dennett

#Natural #Results #Mind

"Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl."

--- Shirley Jackson

#Glasses #Littles #Girl

"Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park."

--- David Halberstam

#Professors #Fallen #His Love

"Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance."

--- David Wenham

#Thinking #Feels #Acting

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Comprehending"