Learning Quote by Voltaire

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

— Voltaire

“Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.”

— T.Z. Lavine

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means,…

— Voltaire

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than…

— Erwin Schrodinger

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

— William James

A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.

— Peter Deunov

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

— Jacques Derrida

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

— Novalis

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to…

— Thomas Bernhard

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not…

— Anonymous