Walker Percy Quotes

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

Small facts lead to great knowing.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.