Gertrude Stein Quotes about Understanding

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Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

Gertrude Stein

Understanding, Important, Repetition

Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.456, e-artnow

Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

Gertrude Stein

Mean, Knowing, Understanding

Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5415, Delphi Classics

The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand.

Gertrude Stein

Men, Differences, Understanding

Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.

Gertrude Stein

Understanding, Doe, Whole

Gertrude Stein (2016). “THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Modern Classics Series): A History of a Family's Progress”, p.353, e-artnow