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Quotes About Understanding

In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places.
~ Norton Juster
it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
~ Norton Juster
I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.
~ Norton Juster
We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense.
~ Norton Juster
For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
~ Norton Juster
it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
~ Norton Juster
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you? asked Milo. Much worse, he said longingly. But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
~ Norton Juster
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
~ Norton Juster
You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.
~ Norton Juster
Where is the sound? someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, It's on the tip of my tongue.
~ Norton Juster
My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
~ Norton Juster
Being lost is not a matter of knowing where you are. It's a matter of knowing where you aren't.
~ Norton Juster
as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
~ Norton Juster
And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
~ Norton Juster
every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not.
~ Norton Juster
but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
~ Norton Juster
And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
~ Norton Juster
I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.
~ Norton Juster
Ali zar u buci nema i dobrih zvukova?
~ Norton Juster
Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars. Therefore, let both kingdoms live in peace.
~ Norton Juster
You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
~ Norton Juster
Bolje upasti u rije? nego u bunar.
~ Norton Juster
You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
~ Norton Juster
I'm the official Senses Taker, and I must have some information before I can take your senses
~ Norton Juster