Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however triflin…

Umberto Eco
240 citations
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. ✨ Umberto Eco (2011). The Prague Cemetery, p.29, Random House
Truth
22

More Author Quotes

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast viril … ▶
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be f … ▶
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspaper … ▶
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). Travels in Hyperreality, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

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. ✨ Umberto Eco (2011). The Prague Cemetery, p.29, Random House

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes