Quotes having the keyword Incomprehensible
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
by Alfred A. Knopf (Publisher, American , born in 1892) keywords: economist, incomprehensible, man, obvious, states , terms
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
by Ernest Renan (Philosopher, French , born in 1823) keywords: christ, history, incomprehensible , without
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.
by Elliot Richardson (Lawyer, American , born in 1920) keywords: become, bureaucratic, cruel, failure, futility, game, inaccessible, incomprehensible, increasingly, inefficient, legislative, maze, only, pervasive, process, sense, service, shell , system
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.
by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (born in 1772) keywords: ancient, being, especially, incomprehensible, languages, method, misunderstood, moreover, original, sense, surest, their, use , words
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.
by Rudolf Steiner (Philosopher, Austrian , born in 1861) keywords: become, begins, incomprehensible, language, meaningful, nature, now, our, previously, secrets, soul, sounds, through, us, were , whisper
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.
by Mark Udall (Politician, American , born in 1950) keywords: attest, deeply, deny, despite, documentation, holocaust, horrors, incomprehensible, living, shocking, still, those, volumes, witnesses , would
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
by Malcolm Wallop (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: incompetence, incomprehensible, literally , utter
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
by Jim Woodring (Artist, American , born in 1952) keywords: incomprehensible, mystery , tree