Jackie Gleason Quotes

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

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

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

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

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.