What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something…

“Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense.”

— Julian Barnes

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

— Hannah Arendt

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

— Umberto Eco

“Beware of those bearing grief in comprehensible words.”

— John Mateer

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

— Jurgen Habermas

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.

— August Macke

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

— Steven Weinberg

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

— Julie Andrews

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

— Dieter Rams

If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems…

— Roger Rosenblatt

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

— James Gosling

My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

— Peter Coyote

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

— Marilyn Nelson

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty…

— Madeleine L'Engle