Quotes with incomprehension

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• 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 became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

  Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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• 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 two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

  The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)

  C. P. Snow
  English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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• We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

  Pablo Picasso
  Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• incomprehension
• representative
• castigation
• possessing
• conscience
• stupidity

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