Comprehension Quotes - Page 9

• There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Happy Life, Vision

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

  Ladislav Sutnar

  Design, Flow, Form

  Ladislav Sutnar (1961). “Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes”

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• Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people
  and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?

  Mao Zedong

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Zedong Mao (1900). “Mao on Revolutionary War”

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• Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

  John Dos Passos

  Apathy, Complicated, Intense

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• I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Law, People

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.283

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• Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Men, Conditions

  Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 March (1949)

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• The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mold, Adults

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world.

  Ted Simon

  Journey, Goal, People

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• We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Views, Consciousness, Individual

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Life Divine: Art of living”, p.31, editionNEXT.com

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

  Benjamin Carson

  Reading, Vocabulary

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• The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.

  John Henry Newman

  Spiritual, Infinite, Reason

  John Henry Newman (1876). “Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations”, p.319

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• Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters.

  Leonard Read

  Philosophy, Libertarian Party, Liberty

  "How to Advance Liberty" by Leonard Read, mises.org. August 03, 2011.

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• Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Divinity, Worship

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• The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Brain, Able, Consciousness

  "Genius Talk: Conversations With Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries". Book by Denis Brian, 1995.

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• A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

  John Eccles

  Men, Understanding, Brain

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• The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Joy

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.382, Princeton University Press

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• We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.

  Cal Thomas

  Evil, Political, Politics

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• But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

  Peter Watts

  Patterns, Matching, Equal

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.80, Head of Zeus

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• The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

  Will Smith

  School, Tests, Facts

  "Will Smith Interview: Will Power". Interview with Meg Grant, www.rd.com.

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• What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.

  Newt Gingrich

  What If, Together, Pieces

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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• In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

  Chauncey Wright

  Men, Order, Intelligence

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• The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.

  Gustav Holst

  Space, Understanding, Brain

  "Gustav Holst 1874-1934: A Centenary Documentation". Book by Michael Short, 1974.

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• It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, May, Horror

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• We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

  Dee Hock

  Struggle, Data, Understanding

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.224, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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