Sarah Dessen Quotes

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

What you don't know will hurt you.

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

What you don’t know can be your greatest asset.

Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes. Conceal your truths within words. Natural ambiguity will protect you then.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

Guessing isn't knowing.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

You're only as sick as your secrets.