Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

After all, the true seeing is within.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. —Bobby Goodspeed

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.