Words matter. These are the best Incomprehensible Quotes from famous people such as Leo Tolstoy, Daryl Davis, Kevin Kline, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Austin Clarke, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
It was incomprehensible to me that someone who had never seen me before, someone who knew absolutely nothing about me, would want to inflict pain upon me for no other reason than the color of my skin.
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.
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.
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.
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
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.
The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, ‘I hate reading’ and I stared at her like, ‘What kind of an alien creature are you?!’ Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it’s only because we haven’t been able to understand it yet.
To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.
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.
I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.
You cannot die. My energy will return to where it came from, part of a massive, incomprehensible universal web of energy.
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
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!
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.
Zero gravity is such an alien environment – completely different from everything we’ve grown up with every single day of our lives. And it’s incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.
I hadn’t accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn’t wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in… Maurice had no brain left. There wasn’t any activity at all.
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.
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.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
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.
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it’s 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
There were trust issues with Hillary Clinton I couldn’t get past, and there was this inflammatory rhetoric from Donald Trump, which to me was incomprehensible and indefensible.
My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.
It’s incomprehensible for me to hear another dude talk about another’s dude’s pockets and have that matter and argue about that.
