Illogical Incoherent Quotes & Sayings

- Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?
- I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent? — James Joyce

I think the greatest gifts we can give each other in a relationship are the gifts of kindness and communication. — Jane Green

The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God. — Wess Stafford

Fifty percent of life is ninety percent indecisive. The rest is confusing. — Brian Spellman

All of my cartoons are better than each other. — Brian Spellman

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people. — Shannon A. Thompson

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television. — Rod Serling

History would be far different
if we did not tend to hear God
most clearly when we think
He is telling us
exactly what it is
we want to hear — Madeleine K. Albright

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm ... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous. — James Prescott Joule

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand. — Thelonious Monk

As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong. — Frederic Chopin

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit. — Marian Wright Edelman