10 Quotes by Sten Nadolny

Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.

We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...

Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist.

Learning and seeing are more important than education.

Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred percent.

The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it.

To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

Recognizing isn’t at all like seeing; the two often don’t even agree.

All at once John was strong enough to bear the impatience of others, and with that the game was at an end. He moved at his own pace. He gave orders the way a carpenter drives nails, each straight and deep until it held. He paused where he wanted to, and not where others interrupted him.