#comprehensible

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution. ↗

— An Wang

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

— Blaise Pascal

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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. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

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... While much recent historicist criticism has assumed early nineteenth-century readers attuned to subtle ideological nuances in poetry, actual responses from readers often come closer to clulessness. ... It is no surprise that no one understood Blake, but other poets fared not much better. ... Coleridge's 'Christabel' was 'the standing enigma which puzzles the curiosity of literary circles. What is it all about?', while another reviewer asked about Shelley, 'What, in the name of wonder on one side, and of common sense on the other, is the meaning of this metaphysical rhapsody about the unbinding of Prometheus?'. Even Keats was condemned for 'his frequent obscurity and confusion of language' and his 'unintelligible quaintness'. Byron, never to be outdone, boasted in 'Don Juan' that not only did he not understand many of his fellow poets, he did not understand himself either: 'I don't pretend that I quite understand / My own meaning when I would be very fine.' ... ↗

— Andrew Elfenbein

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Albert Einstein

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