8 Gertrude Stein Quotes on Knowledge

Gertrude Stein quotes on knowledge

7. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

10. Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

20. The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don't understand.

22. A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

34. Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.

46. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

58. As there was never any question there was never any answer. ~ Ch.1

78. Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear. Now this is a simple thing that anybody who has ever argued or quarreled knows perfectly well is a simple thing, only when they read it they do not understand it because they do not see that understanding and believing are not the same thing. ~ Ch. 4