A Quote by Novalis

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Novalis

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Comprehend Far More Never Ourselves Than

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Novalis
German - Poet
May 2, 1772 - March 25, 1801

Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

Jostein Gaarder

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.

Orson F. Whitney

Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

John Wesley

Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

Frans de Waal

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

Chesty Puller

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.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.

Adyashanti

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

Maimonides

So how do you best respond when mental or emotional challenges confront you or those you love? Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend. ... Never, ever doubt that, and never harden your heart.

Jeffrey R. Holland

In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.

Rene Descartes

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.