Jodi Picoult Quotes

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

Things are always different from what they might be.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

People think that they see, but they don't.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.