#comprehend

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. ↗

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

— Arthur Erickson

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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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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. ↗

— Abdus Salam

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You know," she had said, "I believe we are all given at least one moment in our lives when the world reveals itself to us, in all its workings. We comprehend everything at once, and then forget almost all of it a second later, because none of us could hold it all in our heads. But we are changed afterward," shaking her head, "in a most profound way. ↗

— Brian Francis Slattery

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When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ↗

— Criss Jami

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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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