Maria Konnikova

Incongruous information is discarded, and supporting information is eagerly retained. Our memory actually ends up skewed: we are better able to process and recall the facts that we are motivated to process and recall, while conveniently forgetting those that we would prefer weren't true.

American Writer

Roger Stone

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.

American Politician

Alfred North Whitehead

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

English Mathematician

Jerome Bruner

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

American Psychologist

James Payn

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

English Novelist

Yehudi Menuhin

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

American Musician

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Austrian Editor

George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

British Author

Joyce Maynard

I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

Susan Sontag

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

American Author

Use 'incongruous' to describe something strangely out of place in its surroundings or context.

Unexpected Fit

Describe elements that clash or do not blend well together as 'incongruous'.

Clashing Elements

'Incongruous' often implies a subtle, sometimes humorous contrast, not just direct opposition.

Nuanced Tone

 we're not at the top of the mountain yet there is in fact another stage now some of you may not recognize the scene that's up here and if you take a look at the headline of stage five which is life is great this may seem a little incongruous this is a scene or a snippet from the truth and reconciliation

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 But you'll notice we're not at the top of the mountain yet. There is, in fact, another stage. Now, some of you may not recognize the scene that's up here. And if you take a look at the headline of Stage Five, which is "Life is Great," this may seem a little incongruous. This is a scene or snippet

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 I always think it's situations like this that a male leopard weeny leopard actually it's just so I don't know there's something incongruous about them

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