Baltasar Gracian Quotes

I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.