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Comprehending Quotes (page 7)

Wallace Stegner quote: "Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully..."
Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. Wallace Stegner
He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For medicine is an eternal quest for reasons - causes that explain effects. Science cannot comprehend a miracle. Erich Segal
And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who? Rainer Maria Rilke
Way back when the Sam Peckinpah film The Wild Bunch premiered, a woman journalist raised her hand at the press conference and asked the following: “Why in the world do you have to show so much blood all over the place?” She was pretty worked up about it. One of the actors, Ernest Borgnine, looked a bit perplexed and fielded the question. “Lady, did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?” This film came out at the height of the Vietnam War. I love that ... Haruki Murakami
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown. The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great. Baltasar Gracian
With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have. H. P. Lovecraft
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....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. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place. Milan Kundera
Henri Bergson quote: "The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Henri Bergson
Haruki Murakami quote: "It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write..."
It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them. Haruki Murakami
Emily Bronte quote: "Two words would comprehend my future -- death and hell: ..."
Two words would comprehend my future -- death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell. Emily Bronte
Well, you know that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was justly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of... Joseph Conrad
Voltaire quote: "The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by..."
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. Voltaire
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in..."
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being? Edgar Allan Poe
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them. Haruki Murakami
I'm tired," she uttered complainingly."I know you are."You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half on them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud. Kate Chopin

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