#comprehend

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

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The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

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In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result. ↗

— Ed Townsend

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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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A comprehended god is no god. ↗

— John Chrysostom

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Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years. ↗

— Tim Hudson

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I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

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A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents. ↗

— Susanne Langer

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Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend. ↗

— Criss Jami

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