Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

What I care about is maximum information.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

You have to really know what you're saying.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

Power is the by-product of understanding.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.