Paulo Coelho Quotes

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

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

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.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

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.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.