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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes. -- Aldous Huxley
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life. -- Henri Bergson
Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end. -- Samuel Beckett
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. -- W. G. Sebald
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone? -- Stephen King
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. -- Peter Medawar
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism. -- George Gilder
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. -- Marilynne Robinson
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first. -- Terry Pratchett
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger. -- David Deutsch
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension. -- C.P. Snow
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. -- Pablo Picasso
The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading. -- Michael Silverblatt
Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance. -- Kingsley Amis
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions. -- Carl Jung
The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be. -- Douglas Adams
Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair? -- Leonore Fleischer
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles. -- Paul Cezanne
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics. -- Irving Kaufman
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children. -- Isadora Duncan
It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of men's incomprehension of women, a symptom of women's mistrust of men. -- Francis Wyndham

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