Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

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

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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

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 opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.