Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

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

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

We can only receive what our minds are capable of accepting.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Human beings understand too much.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Man knows much more than he understands.