Hard To Comprehend Quotes

#1. Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

Richard Dawkins

#2. I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.

Amitav Ghosh

#3. With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.

Debra Granik

#4. Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

Paramahansa Yogananda

#5. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Haruki Murakami

#6. It was as hard to comprehend that your life would never end as it was to comprehend that it would.

Cassandra Clare

#7. The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart

Viktor Schauberger

#8. When you haven't been in the world long, it's hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don't even feel the need to. Adults,

Elena Ferrante

#9. Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Hesiod

#10. Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

Deborah Tannen

#11. Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't "get," whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.

Hilton Als

#12. Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.

Thomas Jones

#13. A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

Bill Jay

#14. 'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Algernon Sidney

#15. I'm not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive and expansive place, and sometimes, even for us who live there, some of the realities are very hard to comprehend.

Abbas Kiarostami

#16. What are you afraid of?' I asked.
'Airplanes, guns, large predators, ad master vampires.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#17. She swallowed hard, feeling like a stroke of paint on a canvas far too large for her to comprehend.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#18. There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

Wangari Maathai

#19. It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.

Dav Pilkey

#20. Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.

Robert Herrick

#21. Humor's the hardest thing to translate.

Bharati Mukherjee

#22. From a spiritual perspective, each individual heart is a place where Divine love is expressed and experienced. That's what it's designed for. That love shows up in an unlimited number of shapes and sizes, colors and flavors. We are here to love, as big and as fearlessly as we possibly can.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#23. People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

Theodore Schultz

#24. Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

Fulton J. Sheen

#25. We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.

Amy Purdy

#26. He has yet to confront society with this ego-shattering, life-redeeming elixir, and take the return blow of reasonable queries, hard resentment, and good people at a loss to comprehend.

Joseph Campbell

#27. You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.

Richelle E. Goodrich