#comprehend

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong. ↗

— Robert Plant

#around #before #character #comprehend #creation

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#both #clearly #comprehend #details #diverse

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#creeds #heroic #myths #struggles #truth

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. ↗

— Saint Bernard

#cannot #comprehend #faith #grasp #hold

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#discipline #divinity #great #her #human

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#comprehend #dedication #doing #get #had

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#comprehend #i #political #political reasons #producer

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#better #cohen #comprehend #fascinated #help

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

#built #certainties #comprehend #dead #novel