Quote by Margaret Atwood

“He needs to be listened to, he needs to be heard. He needs at least the illusion of being understood.”

— Margaret Atwood

“He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.”

— Anonymous

“No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity…

— Otto Weininger

“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.”

— George Saunders

“He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he…

— Napoleon Hill

“I’ve seen enough goodness and gentleness in him to know that he’s not who he thinks he is. While he acts like he wants…

— Sawyer Bennett

“They have neither thought nor being, and merely repeat indifferently and uncomprehendingly everything they hear, retaining within themselves an absolute void.”

— Anonymous

“Now, in addition to these traits, he defaults to thinking that what he doesn’t see is not there, or what he does not understand…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him ... I see not how it can…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He had nothing he could do with is life's work now except leave it to a man who thought nothing of it.”

— Wendell Berry

“What is unconscious does not speak and that includes the hidden parts of himself.”

— Jeanette Winterson