Incoherent Quotes
43 quotes by 39 authors
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human…
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.
— Steven Landsburg
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
— Benjamin Rush
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At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext…
— Thelonious Monk
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can…
— Sophocles
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The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of…
— J. Budziszewski
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The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If…
— E F Schumacher
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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
— Nancy Spero
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Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and…
— E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
— John Keats
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Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights…
— Kenny Smith
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance,…
— Oscar Wilde
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I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical,…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,…
— James A. Baldwin
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
— Seneca the Younger
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Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.
— Herman Melville
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You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.
— Woody Allen
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All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see…
— Burgess Meredith
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Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed,…
— Vaclav Havel
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