Paulo Freire Quotes

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

I'm here to make sense.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

Read in order to live.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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

I can explain this to you, but I cannot comprehend it for you.