Paulo Coelho Quotes

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

The wise are wise only because they love.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

All ignorance is the lack of love.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

You have to think with the heart.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.