Richard M. Weaver Quotes

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Just because you did not understand us, it did not mean we were wrong.

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

My mission is to change the way people see the world. Everybody has a perspective or a lens they see things through, and hopefully I can adjust that lens or change that lens so that they see things from a different perspective, a different lens.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.' It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.