Quotes About Comprehend

Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying to comprehend. But what would daylight offer except the illusion of understanding? At least in darkness you were spared the pretending.

One of the difficulties of making the young comprehend their place in the animation business is the failure of animation instructors to adequately explain to their charges the realities of the market.

We saw to the edge of all there is - So brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

So, we see that the ground of intelligence must be in the undetermined and unknown flux, that is also the ground of all definable forms of matter. Intelligence is thus not deducible or explainable on the basis of any branch of knowledge (e.g. physics or biology). Its origin is deeper and more inward than any knowable order that could describe it. (Indeed, it has to comprehend the very order of definable forms of matter through which we would hope to comprehend intelligence.

In our endeavour to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch.

Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.

you understand," Matt said.

He was astonished likewise that they did not see it was impossible for men to comprehend anything of all those wonders, seeing they who have the reputation of being most knowing in them are of quite different opinions, and can agree no better than so many fools and madmen;

well in that case lets get this knight right. it means to understand him.

I understand emotions more than anyone else. I study emotions like a biologist studies various species.

The opportunity to be a star chef, to imagine it would be here in Las Vegas, I couldn't comprehend it.

Barely, only just almost, I could understand Deborah's decision not to help me. Her career was everything to her, and I really was, after all, all she said I was and feared I would be again. I was and I would be, undeniably, unchangeably, and eagerly. It made a certain sense for her to think that way, and while I could never endorse it as a plan of action, I could at least comprehend the mental process that had led her there.

I've studied the game in every different aspect that I can.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Luck has its rules, if you can understand them, and then it is scarcely luck.

I can't make your reality-situation palatable to you. But I can help you comprehend it.

Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.

You misjudge us because you do not know us. —W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Talented Tenth

These broadcasts were of varied content. But all of them took the United States and Canada to task for their anti-Semitism, for not being willing to comprehend and act on the news of the concentration camps early enough, and for continued anti-Semitic policies as they pertained to Jewish refugees.