Dorothea Brande Quotes

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

There are some people who still don't understand. But I know by the end of my fulfillment they will.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.