Best Incomprehensible Sayings
233 Incomprehensible quotes by 194 unique authors
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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
— Constantin Brancusi
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He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to…
— Anandamayi Ma
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All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this…
— Joseph de Maistre
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The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an…
— Paul Dirac
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There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.
— Dave Barry
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Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find it…
— Rhonda Byrne
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There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise…
— Peter Lynch
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Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
— Malcolm Wallop
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What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
— William Klein
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It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.
— Frances Mayes
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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in…
— Edward Hirsch
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I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing…
— Jan Egeland
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It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity…
— Herman Bavinck
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A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's…
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
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Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly…
— S. S. Van Dine
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All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
— Ernest Renan
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O Beginningless, Immortal, Timeless, Incomprehensible and Unimaginable Lord, the God of all and Creator of all creation, the Foreseer and Savior of all, as I…
— Marina of Aguas Santas
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
— Kevin Kline
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The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
— Vance Packard
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Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in…
— Simon McBurney
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You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.
— Unknown Author
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To think that one child would go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is heartbreaking... to know how many do is virtually incomprehensible. This…
— Katie Couric
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When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of…
— John of Ruysbroeck
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If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.
— Jean Meslier
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