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Quotes About Incomprehensible

The more you study quantum mechanics, the more crazy and incomprehensible it becomes. You truly do need a Ph.D. in very high level math and science to understand it at a high, high level.
~ Blake Crouch
Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
~ Kat Dennings
I myself, to be sure - I have as yet seen no great man. That which is great, the acutest eye is at present insensible to it. It is the kingdom of the populace.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
~ Mark Udall
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
~ Jane Austen
El movimiento de los átomos corre hacia arriba, hacia abajo, circularmente. Pero el curso de la virtud no está sujeto a ninguno de estos giros. Tiene, más bien, un no sé qué divino, de modo que hace su jornada por una órbita difícil e incomprensible.
~ Marco Aurélio
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.
~ Anna Akhmatova
unübersehbarer Schaden, schrecklich, entsetzlich, nie zu ersetzen'*
~ Anne Frank
Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four.
~ Anne Lamott
How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.
~ Anne Rice
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
~ Annie Dillard
For us Christians God is inconceivable, incomprehensible, indescribable, and immaterial, as St. Basil the Great says.
~ Seraphim Rose
It also meant that decisions were increasingly made in offices, behind closed doors, by foreigners with no connection to those whose fates they were deciding. The public display of the rulers' authority was replaced by the private circulation of incomprehensible paper.
~ Shashi Tharoor
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
~ John George Diefenbaker
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
~ John Maynard Keynes
At the same time, it seemed certain to me that someday I would really want to hear his voice and wouldn't be able to, and I would think back to the time that he had invited me to call him, and it would seem as incomprehensible as an invitation to speak to the dead.
~ Elif Batuman
From here, she could observe the structure of the Jacob's Ladder. She had a confused idea of lattices and bulbous habitats, of corridors, threading asymmetrically over the surfaces of anchores and domaines. Of gray metal and patchy paint. Now she saw the world in all its incomprehensible vastness, like a grandly rotating three-dimensional spiderweb, and the complexity bewildered her.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sebastien had raised Jack Priest, and for all his fey flighty affection, Garrett's estimation of the young man was that he was a keenly trained observer, and one who knew that the most relevant clues were sometimes those that seemed incomprehensible at the time. And that that ostensible delicacy masked a galvanized will. She kept a terrier. She knew the type.
~ Elizabeth Bear
From the vantage of Cathoair's nineteen years, it was a span beyond bewildering into incomprehensible.
~ Elizabeth Bear
My accent was as Tarheel as it gets. That's incomprehensible to anyone who lives more than two whoops and a holler outside of the state of North Carolina.
~ Ava Gardner Peter Evans
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
~ Ayn Rand
Man trying to understand God is like a toy trying to understand man.
~ B.J. Gupta
He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles. —Job 5:9
~ Gary Chapman