5 Metaphors for comprehension

Yet it is well known, that, while the comprehension and elucidation of the great laws which govern society are a labor which will task the strength of the strongest, in ordinary times affairs may be, and generally are, quite acceptably administered by men of no marked intellectual superiority.

The intellectual comprehension of the sources of evil and the method of its extinction was the second great plank in my ethical platform.

It ain't fit for a woman to readin fact, a woman ought not to read anything; a comprehension of the Decalogue and the cookery-book is enough learning for the best of 'em.

And though she was greatly admired and complimented, no praise so pleased her as his declaration that for all the ingratitude, calumnies, and misunderstandings that he had endured,and they were numberless,her perfect comprehension of him had been his sufficient compensation.

For literal minds the full comprehension of even a slight display of his humor, such as the following dialogue affords, is better exercise than the solution of an algebraic problem.

5 Metaphors for  comprehension