Paulo Coelho Quotes

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

I have a vision, and I know I'm right.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

People would rather believe than know.

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know.

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.