Ally Carter Quotes

But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.

Do you think I’m pretty?” I heard myself ask. Something I couldn’t name flashed across his face. “No. I don’t think you’re pretty. I think you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I love mirrors.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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

Well, it's true that you often kind of forget to see the person you're most intimate with, but occasionally I'll come to and sort of think, 'Oh my God! You're really, really good-looking! I'm embarrassed now! It's nice to occasionally have that flash.

The better you look, the more you see.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

To know another's heart, you must first know your own.

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

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.

We are wiser than we know.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.