"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you"
- Nicholson Baker
About this Quote
In this quote, Nicholson Baker highlights the significance of individual experience in understanding and internalizing sayings. He suggests that up until we see a saying being used in our own lives or in the life of someone close to us, it remains simply a mere stating without any genuine influence on us. It is just when we witness the reality and importance of a saying in action that it gets the power to influence and guide us. This emphasizes the idea that knowledge and lessons are best discovered through individual experience rather than merely hearing or checking out them.
This quote is written / told by Nicholson Baker somewhere between January 7, 1957 and today. He was a famous Novelist from USA.
The author also have 7 other quotes.
"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"
