Gayle Forman Quotes

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

The moment you know you know you know.

The wise man knows without traveling.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

We are wiser than we know.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

To know is not less than to feel.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.