Quote by Umberto Eco Download Open image ““No one ever obliges us to know, Adso. We must, that is all, even if we comprehend imperfectly.”” — Umberto Eco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We were never meant to exist, Adelina," he says. "And we will never exist again. But we cannot take the entire world with us."… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Human beings always want explanations. They have to know everything about everything and they have to know it immediately.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
“So goes the world: people talk as if they knew everything, and when you dare to ask, they do not know anything.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.” — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Words can give us knowledge and understanding. They can tell us of things as they once were, as they should be, or even as… — M.L. Forman Copy Share Image
“It just seems like we --human beings -- know so much, but it's nothing compared to what we don't know.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“We always know more than we think we do. The problem is we don't always know what we know.” — Dori Butler Copy Share Image
“Without failure, we forget, in arrogance, that our understanding of things is never as complete as we think it is.” — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I believe there is an explanation for everything - although we shall never know the explanation for everything. Not everything in this world can… — Steve Augarde Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image