(51 quotes found)
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”
William Shakespeare
“A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?”
Dante Alighieri
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
Albert Einstein
“[What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compelled to comprehend what might have been intended for our universe by The Old One (as he referred to his notion of God).] We are in the position, ... of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.”
“We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.”
Novalis
“We are not to comprehend;the secret of roses, but maybeswimming in the incantation of roses.Or may be looking forthe song of truthbetween the morning glory,and the century.”
Sohrab Sepehri
“We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.”
Giordano Bruno
“That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.”
Piers Anthony
“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”
Charles Dudley Warner
