Ken Robinson Quotes

If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

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

I grew up watching films that presented male perspectives of women.

I don't like making comparisons. You might say one slight thing, find yourself misinterpreted, and suddenly you're in trouble.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.