Cannot Be Understood Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

• Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware… — Rajneesh
• The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are… — Fritjof Capra
• Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more… — Soren Kierkegaard
• Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for… — Nicolaus Copernicus
• Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown. — Carl Jung
• Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences… — Sidney Hook
• The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart has to be… — Rajneesh
• Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson
• If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort… — Zhuangzi
• The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If… — Robert Adams
• Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about… — Camille
• The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on… — Neil Postman
• Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly… — Omar N. Bradley
• The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah
• Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. — Plato
• Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as… — Elizabeth Janeway
• Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. — Thomas Bulfinch
• Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the… — Christopher Love
• Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. — R. D. Laing
• It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so… — James Madison

Who Wrote These Cannot Be Understood Quotes

32 authors contributed a total of 34 Cannot Be Understood Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Cannot Be Understood Quotes by Rajneesh
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Richard P. Feynman
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Woody Allen
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Jane Smiley
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Elie Wiesel
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Alexander Hamilton
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Robert Lanza
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Fritjof Capra
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Carl Jung
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Sidney Hook
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Roman Jakobson
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Zhuangzi
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Robert Adams
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Camille
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Neil Postman
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Omar N. Bradley
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Idries Shah
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Plato
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Elizabeth Janeway
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Thomas Bulfinch
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by Christopher Love
• 1 Cannot Be Understood Quote by R. D. Laing