Chester Brown Quotes

I think perception is important.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

If you read, you'll judge.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.