Source: I Was There (1950), p. 1
"Ain't No Sunshine", on Just as I Am (1971)
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Xunzi in the Xunzi (book)
Misattributed, Chinese
As quoted in Tales of the Hasidim : The Later Masters (1948) by Martin Buber as translated by Olga Marx
Variant translations:
If I am I, simply because I am I, and thou art thou, simply because thou art thou; then I am I and thou art thou. But if I am I because thou art thou, and thou art thou because I am I, then I am not I and thou art not thou.
As quoted in The Rift in Israel: Religious Authority and Secular Democracy (1971) by Samuel Clement Leslie, p. 145
If I am I, because you are you, and you are you, because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you. But if I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you, and we can talk.
As quoted in Let Us Reason Together (1970) by William Berkowitz and William Leonard Laurence
“If I don't know I don't know
I think I know
If I don't know I know
I think I don't know”
§3, p. 55
Knots (1970)
“I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
- Chinese proverb”
