Brian Greene Quotes

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

It's so empowering to know the truth and to really understand something.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

The search for information gives me more confidence, because confidence arises from understanding.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.