Another man Quote by Voltaire

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

— Voltaire

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

— T.Z. Lavine

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

— Ramana Maharshi

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

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

— William James

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Metaphysics is… at the root of all other sciences, which indeed presuppose it. It has been abandoned by the modern mind, which seems to…

— Dom Eugene Boylan

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

— Henri Frederic Amiel