Bono Quotes

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

It is not confused. We are.

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.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

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

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.