understanding Quotes

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.