Seth Godin Quotes

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

First appearance deceives many.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

The world is as you are.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.