Lupe Fiasco Quotes

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

See into life, don't just look at it.

No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Appreciating complexity while searching through its thickets to find essential factors leads to understanding.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

If you read, you'll judge.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.