A God alone can comprehend a God. [ Dr. Young ]
Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity. [ Jeremiah Seed ]
Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. [ Mirabeau ]
The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end. [ Herrick ]
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed. [ C. C. Colton ]
What blockheads are those wise persons who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads! [ Southey ]
Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend. [ St. Evremond ]
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. [ Heine ]
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes. [ Jane Porter ]
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who are entirely deprived of them can neither appreciate nor comprehend them. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand, than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence. [ Lavater ]
Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]
I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression, - a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination. [ Cicero ]
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. [ Sterne ]