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Unintelligible Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
- While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it…
- The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more…
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man…
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
- On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,…
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- Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate,… — Lord Byron
- After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams
- What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man… — Baron d'Holbach
- The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear… — Unknown Author
- A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. — Ambrose Bierce
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- What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech,… — Thomas Merton