Comprehensible Quotes

You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible. - Dr Theodore Schick

Yet critics on the left find it incomprehensible that any black American could succeed on his or her own through hard work and determination. - Alphonso Jackson

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment. - Arnold Bennett

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

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. - Umberto Eco

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra. - Thomas Jefferson

We had a radical clash over policy programs, a pact now would be incomprehensible for the citizens. There can be no coup de theatre, no rabbit pulled out of a hat. - Massimo D'Alema

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. - Carl Gustav Jung

Under the Republican provision, you can't do get-out-the-vote efforts if you work in affordable housing... There is an extremism here that is not comprehensible except if you know the history. - Barney Frank