Jonathan Stroud Quotes

from one thing, know ten thousand things

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

How did they know?.

We are wiser than we know.

I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.

The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things. That someone's circumstances may not be what you think they are or what they show to the world.

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

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.

The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

What's lightly hid is deepest understood.

But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.