E. M. Forster Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Unless we remember we cannot understand.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Memories, Understanding

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.133, RosettaBooks

• I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Men, Class

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, 1938.

• Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Understanding, Too Much

• In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

  E. M. Forster

  Reading, People, Understanding

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.98, RosettaBooks

• Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

  E. M. Forster

  Knowledge, Science, Long

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.299, Xist Publishing

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