Bernie Siegel Quotes

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

To be inspired - that's the secret.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.