Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

It is a great mistake on the part of elderly ladies, male and female, to tell a child that he is seeing his happiest days. Do not you believe a word of it, my little friend.

I used to think the whole world was Jewish.

I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.

Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

I don't think Muslims do hate America. I think that's what we hear and that's what we believe. I don't think that's true.