Best Incomprehensible Quotes
233 Incomprehensible quotes by 194 unique authors
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Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
— Maximus the Confessor
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Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear…
— Svetlana Alliluyeva
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
— Antonin Artaud
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In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
— Mark Twain
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Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures…
— Peter Watts
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Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to…
— Eric S. Raymond
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Your tomorrow has no right to complain about your today, as long as your today gives you a bliss, unknown and incomprehensible to both your…
— Sonu Nigam
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a…
— Edward Abbey
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
— Blaise Pascal
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Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general…
— David Cassidy
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To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable…
— Ivars Peterson
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The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the…
— Claudia Rankine
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Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
— Niklaus Wirth
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The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a…
— Carlos Castaneda
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I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware,…
— Victor Pelevin
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The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a…
— Charles Stross
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My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If…
— Mortimer Adler
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We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in…
— Richard Matheson
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Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no…
— Ayn Rand
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See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history…
— Thomas Merton
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