Incomprehension Quotes

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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life. — Henri Bergson
Everyone was at Martin Freemanâ€™s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freemanâ€™s wife] was crying… — Louise Brealey
The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done… — George Will
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted… — David Deutsch
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the… — Carrie P Snow
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. — W G Sebald
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first. — Terry Pratchett
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes… — Carl Jung
It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But… — Robertson Davies
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. — Peter Medawar
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles. — Paul Cezanne
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are… — Vladimir Nabokov
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone? — Stephen King
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. — Marilynne Robinson
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension… — Tom Stoppard
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good… — Milan Kundera
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others… — Judith Butler
Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension. — Jorge Luis Borges
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed… — Isadora Duncan

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