“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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