Quotes about Incomprehensible

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. Votes: 4

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 have hoped in You, I thank You, that You have brought me to this hour, as I approach the crown of Your righteousness. Votes: 3

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 the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us. Votes: 3

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible. Votes: 2

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. Votes: 2

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Votes: 2

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Votes: 2

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Votes: 2

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. Votes: 2

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Votes: 2

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. Votes: 2

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. Votes: 2

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face. Votes: 2

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. Votes: 2

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. Votes: 2

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. Votes: 2

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Votes: 2

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 we can do. Votes: 2

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. Votes: 2

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. Votes: 2

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time. Votes: 2

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. Votes: 2

It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies. Votes: 2

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one. Votes: 2

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. Votes: 2

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible. Votes: 2

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us. Votes: 2

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. Votes: 2

Males are the most incomprehensible species. Votes: 0

All history is incomprehensible without Christ. Votes: 0

Bring something incomprehensible into the world! Votes: 0

my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart. Votes: 0

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible. Votes: 0

Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power. Votes: 0

The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible. Votes: 0

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend. Votes: 0

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real. Votes: 0

Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist. Votes: 0

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is. Votes: 0

You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible. Votes: 0

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely Votes: 0

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery. Votes: 0

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. Votes: 0

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five. Votes: 0

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible. Votes: 0

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me. Votes: 0

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises . Votes: 0

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences. Votes: 0

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. Votes: 0

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness. Votes: 0

Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse. Votes: 0

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding. Votes: 0

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Votes: 0

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. Votes: 0

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art! Votes: 0

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life. Votes: 0

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible. Votes: 0

God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible. Votes: 0

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. Votes: 0

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. Votes: 0

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. Votes: 0

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself. Votes: 0

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. Votes: 0

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. Votes: 0

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible. Votes: 0

This incomprehensible war would take from him even the humanity to find it incomprehensible. Votes: 0

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true. Votes: 0

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. Votes: 0

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. Votes: 0

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. Votes: 0

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf. Votes: 0

Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect. Votes: 0

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. Votes: 0

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog. Votes: 0

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all. Votes: 0

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. Votes: 0

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. Votes: 0

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Votes: 0

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits. Votes: 0

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless Votes: 0

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. Votes: 0

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us. Votes: 0

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. Votes: 0

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being. Votes: 0

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. Votes: 0

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood. Votes: 0

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. Votes: 0

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. Votes: 0

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. Votes: 0

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. Votes: 0

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable. Votes: 0

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters. Votes: 0

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one. Votes: 0

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage! Votes: 0

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. Votes: 0

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. Votes: 0

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. Votes: 0

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. Votes: 0

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. Votes: 0

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. Votes: 0

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. Votes: 0

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. Votes: 0

We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him. Votes: 0

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there. Votes: 0

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him. Votes: 0

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia. Votes: 0

Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. Votes: 0

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own. Votes: 0

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet. Votes: 0

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. Votes: 0

I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned. Votes: 0

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. Votes: 0

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge. Votes: 0

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong. Votes: 0

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience. Votes: 0

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. Votes: 0

Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.... Votes: 0

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it! Votes: 0

--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. Votes: 0

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery. Votes: 0

When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force. Votes: 0

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible. Votes: 0

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 incomprehensible, even inconceivable. Votes: 0

Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious. Votes: 0

A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to the next section. Votes: 0

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand. Votes: 0

Your tomorrow has no right to complain about your today, as long as your today gives you a bliss, unknown and incomprehensible to both your yesterday, and tomorrow! Votes: 0

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us. Votes: 0

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word. Votes: 0

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there. Votes: 0

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority. Votes: 0

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work. Votes: 0

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.' Votes: 0

When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed. Votes: 0

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably. Votes: 0

The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways. Votes: 0

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Votes: 0

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. Votes: 0

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman. Votes: 0

He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now. Votes: 0

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon. Votes: 0

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him. Votes: 0

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . . Votes: 0

He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now." Votes: 0

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. Votes: 0

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 the whole of history is incomprehensible without him. Votes: 0

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. Votes: 0

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science." Votes: 0

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 uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny. Votes: 0

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened. Votes: 0

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. Votes: 0

I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place. Votes: 0

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. Votes: 0