“ The 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- Copy
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“ The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. ”
- Constantin Brancusi- Copy
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“ The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. ”
- Alexander Douglas Home- Copy
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“ Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. ”
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon- Copy
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“ Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ”
- Kingman Brewster- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ”
- Henry Brooks Adams- Copy
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“ Our personality should be impenetrable even to ourselves. ”
- Fernando Pessoa- Copy
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“ 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 K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
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“ Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
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“ You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. ”
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess- Copy
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“ It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. ”
- William Orville Douglas- Copy
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“ All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. ”
- Alfred A. Knopf- Copy
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“ To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. ”
- Ivars Peterson- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Elliot Richardson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences… ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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