Incomprehensible Quotes

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. (Albert Einstein)
It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. View quote
Antonin Artaud
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. View quote
Vance Packard
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. View quote
William O. Douglas
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. View quote
Galway Kinnell
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. View quote
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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 incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible. View quote
Paul Dirac
Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, she said, but that alone doesn't make it true. View quote
Franz Kafka
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. View quote
Albert Einstein
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 contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. (Poppy Z. Brite)
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. View quote
Kevin Kline
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 means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil. View quote
Ayn Rand
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 unsearchable sea. View quote
John Ruskin
The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises. View quote
Jorge Amado
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. View quote
Lawrence Eagleburger
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences. View quote
Clarice Lispector
To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on the blackboard may be inaccessible and uninstructive, if the purpose of the successive steps is incomprehensible, if the reader or listener cannot understand how it was humanly possible to find such an argument.... View quote
George Pólya
The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood. (Oscar Wilde)
All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears. View quote
Joseph de Maistre
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters. View quote
Jack Vance
I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone. View quote
Albert Camus
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage! View quote
Jane Austen