Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

It's easy to misjudge others. The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

Just because you know doesn't mean they know.

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

I rather think he knew anyway.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.