Harry Knowles Quotes

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

The more I thought about myself, the weaker I got. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I got.

A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

More than my own life

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

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

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

How slowly one comes to understand anything!

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

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

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.