Comprehend Quotations

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them.

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.

Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the 'immoral' man. 'He who is not moral is immoral!' and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

My team impressed me again in their ability to comprehend and understand what I was going through.

No one can comprehend the loss here unless they've been up here. This is a mystical place.

Many people can't comprehend the impact the aviation system has on the economy of the state.

I did not comprehend and I often wonder what he ever saw in me, and it has taken me all these years to understand.

I can't really comprehend the human being who told you that. It's really kind of subhuman behavior.

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.

To comprehend the distaste for modernism, it must be admitted at the start that the greatest works of modernism in all the arts are, much of the time, fundamentally disagreeable when first encountered.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.

He can't comprehend what we've been through. He's a father. I want to tell him what we've been through.

I am from the oil industry and remember when the price was $US10 (a barrel) in 1999 and everyone was saying its going to $US5 (a barrel) ... it was unbelievable to even comprehend a $US50 (a barrel) oil price.

He has failed completely to manage the process effectively. He has shown a glaring inability to comprehend the nature and significance of the task he is asked to perform.

Live it simple, make it simple, and say it simple, the obvious key for happiness which life is all about. Problems begin when we use our overrated brains to explain something we do not fully comprehend and make ourselves experts.

Just because we can't comprehend this kind of evil, doesn't mean he suffers a mental illness. We will never understand evil like this.

I still think our guys don't know how bad it is. From what I've heard, unless you're on the ground in New Orleans, you can't comprehend what has happened there.

It is love that shines brilliantly in every individual. But man, not being able to comprehend the significance of love attributes physical relationship to it. The love of a mother towards her child is affection.

John Kerry is to be congratulated for understanding something that his party's most extreme elements have yet to comprehend - Ohioans know how to count.

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!

That's been a problem for us. It's hard to comprehend because we do have some offensive weapons.

That's what I said today. You know, 'How could you do this to him?'... I don't know what possessed him to do it. I can't even comprehend that.

We believe that the understanding that he has of the context of this tragedy and the factual underpinnings that he has worked to comprehend will help him enormously,

This world is very odd we see, We do not comprehend it; But in one fact we all agree, God won't, and we can't mend it

We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

We're beside ourselves ? all of us are stunned. We can't comprehend what happened. It won't sink in.

The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.

It was a long race with the headwind and then it was all over pretty quickly, ... Just trying to comprehend what (we've) just achieved. It was fantastic.

It was a long race with the headwind and then it was all over pretty quickly. Just trying to comprehend what (we've) just achieved. It was fantastic.

Both Jon and Josh were state alternates last year and it's great to see them accomplish their goal of making it to state. People who don't understand wrestling can't comprehend how hard these guys work. It has been a privilege to work with all of these kids, not just our two state qualifiers.

We do not pretend to know the whole nature and properties of God, but still we can form some clear ideas of him, and can reason from these ideas as justly as from any other. The truth is, that we cannot be said to comprehend any being whatever, not the simplest plant or animal. All have hidden properties. Our knowledge of all is limited.

Thanks to their generosity, we will be able to get help and support to the youngest children -- some of whom weren't even born on 9/11 and who are still too young to comprehend the enormity of their loss.

Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in the next several weeks - it's an experience that few Americans have ever experienced.

Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

This is a tragedy and would be on any day, but its occurrence on Christmas Day only seems to highlight our sense of loss and makes our ability to comprehend that much more difficult.

Insanity - It's difficult to comprehend how insane some people can be. Especially when you're insane.

If your child isn't ready to hear the truth, they simply won't accept it -- or if they're very young, they may truly not even comprehend what you are saying.

I keep having to tell myself, ?Oh my God, we won the national championship? every once in a while. Honestly, just being back on campus and getting the recognition from the student body, and the people around the community, that?s a constant reminder, but just to actually comprehend what we just did, it hits you every once in a while, and it?s just a really good feeling.

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

It's tough for me to comprehend and take this all in.

The North Carolina people have been here basically from the very beginning. They have helped so many. I can't even tell you how many people. You can't comprehend unless you see it with your own eyes.

He's a natural. It's not hard to comprehend the receiver to defensive end transition if you see the kid work.

These people come from other places, and they want to make all these changes, they can't comprehend why we do this. My grandfather, my father and my uncles -- they all taught me to shoot fish. It's our history.

So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.

You want to be accepted by people. For 99 percent of his career, he has been and for that to completely change now, I think is something I don't know if any of us can comprehend what he's going through. By his expressions, you can tell that it is definitely beating him up.

You can only do what your players can execute and have time to comprehend and learn, ... So for me to think we're going to do a lot of the things we're able to do with the Miami Dolphins defense is unrealistic. And it's the same thing Charlie is going through.

You can only do what your players can execute ... what your players have time to comprehend and learn.

You can't think about it. I don't know anybody who can really comprehend that number of eyes watching you. So you just have to look at it as you're performing for the cameras and America, but not as a number.

It's more flattering now than anything, ... It's hard to comprehend something like that until it is done.

It's just unbelievable. It's a situation where it's hard to comprehend that it's actually happened. Caleb was an outstanding young man and he will be dearly missed.

It was so brutal, so quick, and so extensive that we are still struggling to fully comprehend it.

It's frustrating to see a player as talented as Andy get overlooked by these schools. What really confuses me is when they ask my opinion and I tell them about his ability, they appear not to comprehend a word I'm saying.

It's going to be very hard for children to make sense of this. Young children simply don't comprehend that everything is gone.

This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.

I can't comprehend it, it's something beyond imagination.

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence

The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God's creatures is not clear.

The living conditions down there are horrible, but with what we have to accomplish, we'll be working so hard we won't be concerned with ourselves. We've seen the pictures on TV and we've seen the still photos in newspapers and so forth, but until you go and travel those streets and see everything yourself, you cannot imagine or comprehend what has happened down there. It's gut-wrenching.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar - Requires sorest need.

Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is

Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them