#comprehend

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend! ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#color #comprehend #could #friendly #heard

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. ↗

— William Hamilton

#conceived #faculties #god #infinite #limitation

You know," she had said, "I believe we are all given at least one moment in our lives when the world reveals itself to us, in all its workings. We comprehend everything at once, and then forget almost all of it a second later, because none of us could hold it all in our heads. But we are changed afterward," shaking her head, "in a most profound way. ↗

— Brian Francis Slattery

#change

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#better #comprehend #could #everything #i

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#eye #mind #only #prepared #sees

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#buildings #cannot #comprehend #medieval #really

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#brain #cannot #cave #clever #comprehend

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#comprehend #events #faster #move #often

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#comprehending #gift #joy #looking #most

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#different #each #entities #fortress #image