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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 theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan

Change, Future, Mind

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Knowledge, Cannot

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Mind, Able

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal

Through, Thought, Universe

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Long, Short, Head

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

Life, Simple, Brain

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
George Whitefield

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams

Truth, Heroic, Struggles

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Hypatia

Life, Best, Truth

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
Benjamin Tucker

Money, May, Said

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Nature, Power

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
John Malkovich

Impossible, Lose, Often

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
Barbara Bush

Everything, Worry, Write

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
Robert Plant

Music, Character, Everything

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Novalis

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins

Education, Failure, Human

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
Anthony Hopkins

Time, Strange, Second

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Arthur Erickson

Cultures, Insistence, Measuring

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
Arthur Erickson

Single, Understand, Cannot

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
Arthur Erickson

Experience, Cannot, Film

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Mind, Before

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides

Mind, Everything, Able

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Great, Simple, Human

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
Jack Nicklaus

Try, Learn, Talent

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.
Milan Kundera

Attitude, Wisdom, Dead

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
Guru Nanak

Him, Through, Cannot

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
Jeffrey Kluger

Time, Experience, Moving

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
Edward Young

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies

Mind, Eye, Prepared

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Henri Poincare

Happy, Once, Word

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