Robert N. Anthony Quotes

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

You can't force anyone to understand anything that they don't want to understand.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.