Quotes with comprehend

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  • Henri-Louis Bergson The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Robertson Davies The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Paracelsus The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Bill Wulf There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
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  • Ezra Taft Benson This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.
    Ezra Taft Benson
    American farmer, government official, and religious leader (1985 - 1994)
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  • Blaise Pascal Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ruth Hubbard To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Erickson You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 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
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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