We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
Wendell Berry

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

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.
Harvey Keitel

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
John Cheever

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
Edward Young

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

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!
Lewis Tappan

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.
Richard Baxter