No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Man knows much more than he understands.
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.