Gertrude Stein Quote

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.


Manuscript (1903), published in Q.E.D. Book 1, from Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971)


The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not...

The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not...

The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not...

The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not...