Persius Quotes

When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.

How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

I know this because Tyler knows this.

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through a similar situation. That way I'm not picking on my wife.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

The best ideas are common property.

One cannot be independent of the deep thinking of the people.

No experience exists unless it's a shared one.

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you.

When you think you have something special, you can't be the only one what thinks it; everybody else has to agree.

Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him. Rather, it can be said that collectively they are making something in common

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.