Andre Maurois Quotes

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

There is something in me that makes me see things through.

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

Personally, I like to put things in perspective.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

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

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.