Reader Understands

Famous quotes containing the words reader and/or understands:

“The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)