Paula Fox Quotes

What you sees, is what you gets.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

People think that they see, but they don't.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.