“One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.” HumansImportantFeelingsNightCertainValuesKnowledgeHeardIgnoranceFlowerUnderstoodGardenDirectStrikesMoodDramaticPoeticLeafsMeadowsProdigiesImbecilityDazed Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.” SaidDoneChangeAnswersKnowledgeHeardExampleCircumstancesConscienceDaringSmallestIndifferent Book:The Essays Source: The Essays
“A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.” PeopleKnowsSeemsAnswersKnowledgeHeardIgnoranceGoes OnOffersIgnorantInstanceWorldlySeemingAdvisable Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.” IfsShouldLightScienceSpeakSoundWonderKnowledgeHeardLipsFasterBossSync Author:Scott Adams
“You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee” LifeTimeKnowledgeHeardAchievementSalvationTheeProphetAcquireSpokesMediocrityAcceptableSageAntiquity Author:John H. Vandenberg
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveSaidUnderstandingKnowledgeLearningHeardCommunicationListeningConfusionNot SureRealisingLack Of UnderstandingIllustratorsListening And Hearing Author:Robert McCloskey