Quotes About Comprehension

Only when something ends can we understand what it has meant. In

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

So dark. Endless darkness, eternal. It was not the absence of light that was so frightening as the absence of thought, of knowledge, of comprehension. Our lives, the lives of the living will go on. The sun shines, the moons rise, we will laugh and talk, and he will know nothing, feel nothing. Nothing. So final. It will come to us all. It will come to me.

I had know it and never known it.

I think of the note. I want to say me too. I want to say I know. I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It's my language too. I want to say that.

When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.

in which letters are written / not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand / but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!

To have misapprehended the matter is to have confessed that one has not looked far enough.

when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable.

Give me dragons any day; I understand their ways far better than those of my fellow human beings. We make our world much too complicated

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

You're not listening to any of this, are you?" As far as she was concerned, it was really a rhetorical question. Rather than answer yes or no, Esteban had a question of his own. "Would it matter?" he asked her. "You seem to like to talk, and I've got a pulse." He looked at her over the hood of the car before getting in. "I figure that's about all you require.

It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

I don't know if you have the words I need. I know you didn't need the ones I had.

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

It's harder to be afraid of something you understand

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.