Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The incomprehension is when the thing happens without knowing the reasons.” — Adele Mandez Copy Share Image
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.” — Janvier Chando Copy Share Image
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what… — George Will Copy Share Image
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“If we don’t readjust our perception in time, the screeching hinges in our mind may break for want of oil and our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
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