Top 315 Comprehension Quotes & Sayings

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

I know that God is using me in ways beyond my comprehension.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

The strong tendency to blame others is a barrier, an obstacle for the comprehension of our own mistakes.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

The kind of attention I get is way beyond my comprehension.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

In order to produce the satisfaction of comprehension, there first needs to be the process of comprehension. Furthermore, the overarching idea at hand needs to be something that is actually comprehensible.

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

If you were to encounter something from another world or dimension, it would be beyond comprehension.

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.

Comprehension follows perception.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

It's completely beyond comprehension that you just can't say anything without offending somebody or the other.

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.