Best Incomprehensible Quotations
233 Incomprehensible quotes by 194 unique authors
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These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
— Nelson Mandela
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Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his…
— Saul Bellow
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His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that…
— Ernest Renan
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I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to…
— Suzanne Segal
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...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all…
— Huston Smith
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Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why…
— Gerhard Richter
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though…
— Saint Augustine
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God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His saints in the…
— John Cassian
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Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible.…
— John of Damascus
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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
— Joseph Conrad
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Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is…
— Stephen Shore
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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the…
— Aldous Huxley
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The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant…
— Charles Darwin
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Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are…
— William O. Douglas
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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand…
— Queen Victoria
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The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.
— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
— Galway Kinnell
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When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's…
— Stefan Molyneux
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The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure…
— John Ruskin
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What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could…
— Osamu Dazai
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All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God…
— Jacques Ellul
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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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