David Eddings Quotes

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things being good is thinking that we know. And the more that we can remove any baggage we're carrying with us, and just be in the moment, use our ears, and pay attention to what's happening, and just listen to the inner voice that directs us, the better.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

There's good random, and there's bad random. There's good silly and there's bad silly, and you've gotta know the difference.

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.

How did they know?.

I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.

There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.

A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find

With knowledge comes more doubt.

Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?

What's lightly hid is deepest understood.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

I have never had a problem dealing in areas of ambiguity. I can make a decision and not have it all lined up just right.

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.

Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain, your face dissolving, changing shape, the colours running together My walls absorb you, breathe you forth again, you resume yourself, I do not recognize you You rest on the bed watching me watching you, we will never know each other any better than we do now