Seth Godin Quotes

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

Understanding is the solution to every problem.

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

I've seen so many thousands of hands that I am just going to be right more often than most people.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.