Understanding Quotes

“Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.”

“O most delicate fiend!Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?”

“Hear the meaning within the word.”

“For mine own part, it was Greek to me.”

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

“Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.”

“But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.”

“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.”

“The field cannot be seen from within the field.”

“No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.”

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”

“This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.”

“Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.”

“The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.”

“Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.”

“Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?”

“You never know how you look through other people's eyes.”

“Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.”

“I am sure,Though you can guess what temperance should be,You know not what it is.”

“I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.”

“Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.”

“Under every deep a lower deep opens.”

“Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.”

“Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.”

“I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.”