Definition of Comprehend

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Comprehend

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.

To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.

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Comprehend Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
Wendell Berry

Comprehend Translations

comprehend in German is begreifen
comprehend in Italian is rinchiudere, comprendere, capire
comprehend in Latin is video vidi visum
comprehend in Spanish is idear, encerrar

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