such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension

“Yet though there is no visible barrier I know only too well that I am surrounded by unseen and impassable walls which tower into…

— Anna Kavan

“If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I think, immediately, that there is something wrong with us, perhaps unfixable, if my husband wouldn't think to tell me this. Sometimes I feel…

— Gillian Flynn

“The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were.”

— Anonymous

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of…

— Winston Churchill

The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models…

— Alexander Tsiaras

I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and…

— Aleister Crowley

There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist…

— Julian Huxley

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those…

— Paulo Freire

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be…

— George Bernard Shaw

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent…

— Enoch Powell

“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that…

— Kory Stamper

We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of…

— Bernie Sanders

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use…

— Isaac Asimov