Max Frisch Quotes

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

Do not forget that others won’t see the problems the way you look at or vice versa.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

Just because you know doesn't mean they know.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

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.

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

What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

It is not confused. We are.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.