David Levithan Quotes

We are wiser than we know.

To know is not less than to feel.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Sometimes you can't know until you know.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

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.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

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

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

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

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.