All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Adolf Hitler

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Naguib Mahfouz

Human life is beyond comprehension.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
Alva Noto

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.
Aleister Crowley

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
Rose Kennedy

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
Karl Jaspers

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
Annie Jump Cannon

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Paul Getty

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
Joan Miro