Patrick Ness Quotes

from one thing, know ten thousand things

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

To know is not less than to feel.

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

Sometimes you know before you know.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.