“You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?”
Source: The Library of Babel
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Source: The best critic of a translation is its second translation, Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, 2013 https://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/3001

Source: A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522), p. 65

How I do my computing (2006)
2000s

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
“I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.”
“As listeners, we are not required to understand,” said Qiingi. “Only to care.”
Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 176).

In a letter to Anita Pollitzer, Abiquiu, New Mexico, February 28, 1968); as quoted in The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O’Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer, ed. Clive Giboire, Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, 1990, p. 320
1950 - 1970

“If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.”
As quoted by Ann Landers, in The Poughkeepsie Journal (26 March 1978); cited as "Mondale's Law" in The Book of Laws (1979) by Harold Faber, p. 13