Elias Hicks Quotes

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

What I care about is maximum information.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

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

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.