Quote by Samuel Butler
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – Samuel Butler

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. – Samuel Butler

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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything. – Rene Coty

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To understand is to perceive patterns. – Sir Isaiah Berlin

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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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The world only goes round by misunderstanding. – Charles Baudelaire

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