Raymond E. Feist Quotes

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

The world isn't what you think it is.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.