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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.


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VOLTAIRE When he that speaks, and he to whom he speaks, neither of them understand what is meant, that is met...
VOLTAIRE When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
VOLTAIRE The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand
CHINESE PROVERBS He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
LAO TZU He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
LAO-TZU When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no lo...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
GEORG BRANDES A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand ...
FULTON J. SHEEN He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
ELBERT HUBBARD It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that ...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks...
PERIANDER OF CORINTH He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
FRANCIS QUARLES I, for my share, cannot understand," continued she, "how men have made themselves believe that God s...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects...
CARL JUNG Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds
CLAUDE BERNARD Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be a...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no differe...
OCTAVIO PAZ He whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office; he who desires nothing cares not for bodil...
CHANAKYA A very unwise man once said, “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand...
SHANNON L. ALDER All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth
ARISTOTLE He speaks Czech. It's pretty close to Slovak, so I can understand him.
IGOR POHANKA The true philosopher does not demonstrate; he shows and says nothing to those who don’t understand...
VIKRANT PARSAI What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
UNKNOWN No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at som...
JACQUES DERRIDA No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatan...
ANTON CHEKHOV One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with hi...
GIOVANNI FALCONE No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
V. I. KLASSEN Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a ...
CRISS JAMI It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does ...
CRISS JAMI The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to ta...
PRICILLA ELFREY The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to ta...
PRISCILLA ELFREY Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does no...
G. K. CHESTERTON He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees a...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He who blackens others does not whiten himself
GERMAN PROVERB There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is ...
LACTANTIUS When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cann...
SOURCE UNKNOWN He's one of those guys who, when he speaks, they [teammates] listen.
GEORGE REED One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
JOHANN VON GOETHE One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
ELBERT HUBBARD He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
UNKNOWN When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come...
DADA BHAGWAN I understand (finally) that God does not REACT to prayers or petitions. He has ACTED. It is already ...
CARLOS WALLACE He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance.
JOSEPH MUCHEMI Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be. The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Humility speaks the language that mighty pride cannot understand.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) [The boy] does not seem to understand what he has done, ... In the interview with the police, he did...
ARTHUR BUSCH He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and f...
CHARLES PEGUY He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and f...
CHARLES PEGUY This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too in...
GEORGE ORWELL [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
SAMUEL BUTLER We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as t...
CHIEF SEATTLE The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives t...
LAO TZU I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets...
STANISłAW LEM He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars a...
CHARLES PEGUY Maybe he does want to rehabilitate himself, but he does not speak, so we do not know.
CLAUDE MOISE The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things...
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
AESOP A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not kno...
LIN YUTANG Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he do...
CHIEF SEATTLE He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET The mind speaks, though it does not have lips.
The heart moves, though it does not have feet. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going, and a perfect traveler does not know whe...
LIN YUTANG He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who does evil to others, does it to himself.
TURKISH PROVERB Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Nothing speaks to my spirit like music does...
CRISTABEL MICHAELS When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERS God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
FREDERICK BUECHNER How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only a...
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to under...
NORVIN MCGRANAHAN When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to under...
NORVIN MCGRANAHAN God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors a...
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE Japan does not understand very well that one of its proudest cultural achievements is in film,
AKIRA KUROSAWA How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand y...
RAVI ZACHARIAS We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using man...
ORIGEN He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
STEPHEN KING He knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD No one is free who does not lord over himself.
CLAUDIUS He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to ...
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