Everyone hears only what he understands.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

• https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2505-a-person-hears-only-what-they-understand
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• The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
• No man can reveal to you anything but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.