Four in America (1933)
“Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.”
Source: The Prague Cemetery
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Umberto Eco 120
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016Related quotes
Part 1: "From Rockaway to MIT", "Who Stole the Door?", p. 36-37
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
“What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
“It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.”
Source: Eating the Dinosaur
“The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
What do you mean by you?"
volume I; lecture 8, "Motion"; section 8-1, "Description of motion"; p. 8-2
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)