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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. ↗

— Dee Brown

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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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

— Norman Cousins

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

— Novalis

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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. ↗

— Stephen Spender

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You may know God, but not comprehend Him. ↗

— Richard Baxter

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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

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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

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If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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