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Letter "C" » comprehension
«Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.»
Author: Rose F. Kennedy
(Author)
| About:
Anxiety
| Keywords:
anxiety, atmosphere, comprehension, take place
«The total sacrifice to a cause beyond his comprehension restored a richness to man»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
comprehension, restored, richness
«Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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Arts and Sciences, branch, comprehension, indubitably, physics, sciences, subtlest, the sciences
«I must tell you that I was always afraid of the fury with which I loved you. It overwhelmed me. I thought it beyond comprehension, therefore my silence.»
Author: Henry Rollins
(Actor, Author, Poet, Singer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
comprehension, furies, fury, overwhelmed, The Fury
«On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Religion
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absolutely, abstractions, burning, comprehension, distinguished, dogmas, fighting, human mind, mankind, moral, moral principle, principles, quarreled, quarreling, Religions of the world, The Beginning, tortures, torturing, to this day, unintelligible
«O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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beyond control, comprehension, control it, describe, Krishna, restless, stillness, tame, tamer, turbulent
«Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.»
«Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
beings, comprehension, connote, delight, deprives, depriving, err, errs, ever so, experienced, human beings, human right, passes, precious
«Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
apply, balance, comprehension, discernment, embraces, gestalt, integrate, integrated, integrates, judgment, oneness, parts, perspective, perspectives, principles, relate, sense of balance, to each other, various, wholeness
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