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comprehends
«A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| About:
Character,
Power,
Purpose,
Relationships,
Thought,
Understanding
| Keywords:
altogether, comprehends, definite, exert, exerts, resisted, symbol
«Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.»
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
(Composer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
comprehend, comprehends, entrance, entrances, Entrance to, entrancing, incorporeal
«Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?»
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
(Composer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
comprehends, concerning, consult, goddess, Great Goddess
«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
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«Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Gifts,
Joy,
Nature,
Understanding
| Keywords:
comprehended, comprehending, comprehends
«I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.»
Author: Bob Dylan
| About:
Future,
Mankind,
Mind,
Past
| Keywords:
comprehend, comprehended, comprehending, comprehends, human mind, illusions, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating
«`Wouldst thou' - so the helmsman answered. - / `Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers / Comprehend its mystery!'»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
answered, brave, comprehend, comprehended, comprehending, comprehends, dangers, helmsman, mystery, sea, The Sea, The Secret, thou
«Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
apprehend, apprehended, apprehending, comprehends, cool, fantasies, madmen, seethe, seethed, seething, shaping