Comprehend Quotes

Wise it is to comprehend the whole. - Edward Young

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory / the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended. - Herman Melville

Why HP, Dell, Nokia, Motorola, Palm, etc. have taken so long to create solutions that might strongly compete with RIM is difficult to comprehend. RIM has had a big target on their back for several years and everyone seems to keep finding ways of missing. - Todd Kort

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? / Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? / With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? / Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. - Bible

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. - Stephen Spender

When you get away from the audience and you get away from that form of expression and have that moment alone, to even comprehend what you've just been through, is a difficult thing to do. - Neve Campbell

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. - Thomas Carlyle

When they first told us about it, it was kind of weird to comprehend. But now that we're in the swing of things we really don't care. My mom probably likes it. She likes the warmer weather. - Mike Cross

When the interests of Western states and those of Russia collide in the Caucasus, when the leaders of those Western states comprehend the level of danger to the entire civilized world that emanates from Russia, then they will line up and beg us Chechens to agree to end the war. - Aslan Maskhadov

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. - Albert Einstein