Quotes About Comprehension

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

There's always two sides to the coin if you have the patience to see.

Listening is more important than talking.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.