Greg Bear Quotes

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

I like to open people's eyes.

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

The more you know, the sadder you get.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Science is but an image of the truth.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.