Louise Brown Quotes

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom begins at the end.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

It's important to be enlightened.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.