Sara Shepard Quotes

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

See into life, don't just look at it.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

What's lightly hid is deepest understood.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

Beauty can never really understand itself.