Quotes and sayings tagged 'comprehensible'

Nothing is comprehensible except by virtue of its edges.

Nothing is comprehensible except by virtue of its edges.

The utter incompetence of the u.n. Is literally incomprehensible.

The utter incompetence of the u.n. Is literally incomprehensible.

— Malcolm Wallop

That’s the way it is with poetry: when it is incomprehensible it seems profound

That’s the way it is with poetry: when it is incomprehensible it seems profound

— Galway Kinnell

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

— Alfred Russel Wallace

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language.

— Kevin Delaney Kline

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in

— Lawrence Eagleburger

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

— Alfred A. Knopf

The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

— Alec Douglas Home

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

— Jim Woodring

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

— Karl Radek

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

— Steven Weinberg

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation

— Mark Udall

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

— Ivan Turgenev

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men

— Leo Tolstoy

So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

— David Brooks

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

— Robert South

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.

— Antonin Artaud

All history is incomprehensible without christ.

All history is incomprehensible without christ.

— Ernest Renan

The function of theology? the recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

The function of theology? the recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

— John Maynard Keynes

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

— Kingman Brewster

The christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

The christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

— Vance Packard

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

— Martin Buber

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.

— Jane Austen

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

— William O. Douglas

If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot

If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot

— Richard Dawkins

The revelatory or visionary is the province of the ‘private’ artist, who

The revelatory or visionary is the province of the ‘private’ artist, who

— Kenneth Coutts-Smith

You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean

You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are

— Douglas Adams

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed

— Carl Jung

But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of

But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more

The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more

— Charles Darwin

People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually,

People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually,

— Neil Postman

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which

— Queen Victoria

“And” seems to me closest. “And” nods toward the real. And “and”

“And” seems to me closest. “And” nods toward the real. And “and”

— Jane Hirshfield

Good luck, I’m beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the

Good luck, I’m beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the

— Anita Shreve

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present,

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present,

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it

If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it

— Barbara Holland

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can

— Starhawk

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