Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

After all, the true seeing is within.

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

It's funny: the older I get, the more I can pick out when people are acting.