Quotes with incomprehensible

  • An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
  • If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

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  • Antonin Artaud All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Alfred A. Knopf An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Richard Dawkins I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Martin Luther In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
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  • Jane Austen It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bernie Sanders 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.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations - past and present - are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Albert Einstein That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Constantin Brancusi The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
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  • Albert Einstein The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Leo Tolstoy 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.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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