Drake Quotes

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

Words are the money of fools.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

What is reading, but silent conversation.