Incomprehensible Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

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

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.

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.

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.