Shirley Hazzard Quotes

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I'm not very wise to many things.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

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

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

People think I'm nuts.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

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

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

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

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 here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind