Loren Eiseley Quotes

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it.

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.

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

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

I want my readers to find their own way.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Boy, when you come to study something, and you come to understand it - you know, even if it's just a little discovery that you make, and you come to understand it on your own, it feels it's like the greatest high. It's like you just have found some incredibly secretive thing about nature.

I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them.

It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.

The secret of secrets is inside me again.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by a man who knew me not at all, now sung by the one who knew me best.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.

I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.

Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.