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Letter "C" » comprehend
«This world is very odd we see, We do not comprehend it; But in one fact we all agree, God won't, and we can't mend it»
«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.»
Author: Bill Wulf
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Nature
| Keywords:
comprehend, division, imposition, impositions, natural science, reflects, The Division
«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.»
Author: Ezra Taft Benson
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challenge, comprehend, continually, discern, discerns, latter, Latter day, spirituality
«The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.»
«The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
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Words
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comprehend, finest, sounds, The Finest, vain
«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
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«Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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atom, comprehend, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, swallows
«There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief /a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.»
«The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
comprehend, decencies, decency, dissent, dissenting, dissents, fifty, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, grant, honesty, reject, rut, ruts, rutting, superstitions, unable
«The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
People,
Stupidity
| Keywords:
comprehend, extent, Infinities, infinity, stupidity
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