{"quotes":[{"text":"It has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even their physicians) some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.","author":"William Styron","tags":["comprehension","depressed","depression","health","mental-illness","pain","sufferer","sympathy","torment","understanding"],"id":6874,"author_id":"William+Styron"},{"text":"We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.","author":"Pierre-Simon Laplace","tags":["analysis","astronomy","certainty","comprehension","data","determinism","eyes","formula","free-will","human-mind","intelligence","lack-of-free-will","mind","motion","naturalism","nature","omniscience","past","perfection","physics","present","science","space","time","universe"],"id":9799,"author_id":"Pierre-Simon+Laplace"},{"text":"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["articulate","articulation","babble","babbling","cleverness","comprehension","genius","greater","intelligence","nature","philosobabble","simple","simple-truth","simplicity","truth","vivid","wisdom","wit"],"id":21394,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book and Mr Piddington's law of cyclones, Ellis's anatomy and Lewer's midwifery, we have already made ourself half blind. We have become hypnotized by words and names. We think in words and names, not in ideas; the commonplace has triumphed, the true intellect is half crushed.","author":"Henry de Vere Stacpoole","tags":["comprehension","ideas","intellect","names","the-blue-lagoon","understanding"],"id":28108,"author_id":"Henry+de+Vere+Stacpoole"},{"text":"Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.","author":"Jiddu Krishnamurti","tags":["ity","comprehension","creativeness","creativity","security","tranquility","worship"],"id":30054,"author_id":"Jiddu+Krishnamurti"},{"text":"The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.","author":"Tim Fargo","tags":["appreciation","apprehension","awareness","comprehension","consciousness","desire","desires","fear","fears","grasp","knowledge","perception","perceptions","reality","realization","recognition","understanding"],"id":41863,"author_id":"Tim+Fargo"},{"text":"Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["comprehending","comprehension","discovery","evidence","history","moral-relativism","relativism","truth","truth-telling","understanding"],"id":46482,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["attention","bias","compassion","comprehension","discernment","fear","judgmentality","listening","love","prejudice","understanding"],"id":47964,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"You need to understand, comprehend and believe, “There is a goal in my birth. I have a mission, and there is something that no one but I can do.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["believe","birth","calling","comprehension","goal","life","mission","purpose","truth","understanding"],"id":48940,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something.'The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action.'Olivier frowned. 'So?'Dear boy, I must tell you a secret.'What?'I do believe it is wrong.","author":"Iain Pears","tags":["action","comprehension","philosophy","right","understanding","virtue","wrong"],"id":54970,"author_id":"Iain+Pears"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}