Incomprehension Quotes

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It…

— Pablo Picasso

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

— Tom Stoppard

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

— Peter Medawar

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional…

— Adrienne Rich

We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based…

— Anonymous

Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s…

— Louise Brealey

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing…

— Aldous Huxley

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted…

— Kingsley Amis

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

— W. G. Sebald

The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what…

— George Will

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical…

— C.P. Snow

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers…

— Carl Jung

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build…

— Tom Stoppard

Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we…

— Judith Butler

Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's…

— Leonore Fleischer

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man…

— Terry Pratchett

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of…

— Anonymous

There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

— Samuel Beckett

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?

— Stephen King

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

— George Gilder

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the…

— Paul Cezanne