comprehension quotes

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

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.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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

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

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.