Cannot Understand Quotes

190 quotes by 163 authors

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them — Miriam Makeba
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home. — Archibald Cox
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental… — Andrew Solomon
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture. — Michelangelo
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, weâ€™ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we donâ€™t believe in the… — Caitlin Moran
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese. — Henry L. Stimson
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of… — Hugh MacLennan
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand — Cesare Lombroso
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and… — Frances Ridley Havergal
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements… — Hermann Weyl
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world. — Walter Lang
Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we… — Barry Hughart
We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of… — Albert Schweitzer
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made… — Bianca Jagger
Marriage is a hell, but sometimes people need it. What to do? So I have to tell them to get into marriage. They need to… — Rajneesh
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do… — Richard P. Feynman
But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only… — Silas House
This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though… — The Rev
General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause… — Marilyn Ferguson
In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal,… — Nikola Tesla

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