Cannot Understand Quotes

190 quotes by 163 authors

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. — Karl Marx
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of… — Dwight L. Moody
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. — Blaise Pascal
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. — Enoch Powell
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. — Jean Rostand
Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so,… — Alice Walker
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless… — Simone Weil
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith… — Wendell Berry
This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing… — Shiro Amano
Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it… — Galileo Galilei
Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us,… — Dan Brown
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it,… — George Leigh Mallory
Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill. — Alfred Noyes
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it — Ted Dekker
Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the… — Lisa Ann Sandell
Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the… — Lisa Ann Sandell

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