Comprehension Theory Quotes & Sayings

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books. — Patricia Cornwell

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism. — Noam Chomsky

All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice. — Karl Marx

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment. — Amit Ray

Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life. — Steven Magee

Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one. — Fetty Wap

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross. — E. Stanley Jones

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it. — Cynthia Lewis

Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system. — Mildred Blaxter

He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them; he must show how these parts originated, and how they came to be in that relation in which they stand to each other. But he who learns to know a thing not only from its phenomena, but also its reasons and causes; and who, therefore, not by the phenomena merely, but by these also, is compelled to say: 'The thing must be so, and it cannot be otherwise; it is necessarily of such a character; it must have such qualities; it is impossible for it to possess others' - understands the thing not only historically but truly philosophically, and he has a philosophic knowledge of it. Our own Theory of Generation is to be such a philosphic comprehension of an organic body, a very different one from one merely historical. (1764) — Caspar Friedrich Wolff

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever. — Jefferson Davis

I spend a lot of time doing watercolors and playing music in my apartment. — Lola Kirke

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice. — Karl Marx

I know what it's like to desperately need help, and what I think is it would feel really good to be on the other side, to be able to give help to people who need it, desperately or otherwise. — Dean Koontz

I'm not an intellectual - Fascism has no need of that. What is wanted is the deed. Theory derives from action. What our corporate state demands from us is comprehension of the social forces - of history. You — Philip K. Dick

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out. — Marilyn Manson

you base your faith on experience, your faith is — Ram Dass

An old French mathematician said: A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street. This clearness and ease of comprehension, here insisted on for a mathematical theory, I should still more demand for a mathematical problem if it is to be perfect; for what is clear and easily comprehended attracts, the complicated repels us. — David Hilbert

Form is what transforms the content of a work into its essence. Do you understand? The character of music arises out of its form like steam from water,' Yury Andreevich said. 'With solid understanding of the general laws of form, which encompass all that is amenable to formulation, one can, by groping further, perceive the individual, the particular. Then, subtracting the general, one can sense a residue where wonder lurks in its purest, most undiluted form. Herein lies the goal of theory: the more fully one grasps what is available for comprehension, the more intensely the ineffable shines. — Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The parish is not an outdated institution; precisely because it possesses great flexibility, it can assume quite different contours depending on the openness and missionary creativity of the pastor and the community. — Pope Francis

The basis for comprehension is theory, and the language of theoretical science is mathematics. — D.C. Rapaport

I'm not going to put my lot in with economists. — Hillary Clinton