John Steinbeck Quotes

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

The more I see, the less I know.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

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

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

The more I know, the less I understand

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.