Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

They say eyes clear with age.

What I care about is maximum information.

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

When you understand things, there's no more magic.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.