Publilius Syrus Quotes

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

An unknown must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

You're never quite sure, when you first get something if you really have a sense of what an opportunity it is.

I didn’t know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn’t know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don’t give me that look…sorry? (Xypher)

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

Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

How little we know of what there is to know.

You see, we didn't know.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we hadn't had before. Would I trade that in order to have her back? In a fraction of a millisecond. But I won't ever have her back. So I have taken this, as her great gift to us. But. Do I block her out? Never. Do I think of her? Always. In some part of my brain, I think of her every single moment of every single day.