Carlos Castaneda Quotes

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Science is but an image of the truth.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

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

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.