Aldous Huxley Quotes

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

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

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Science is but an image of the truth.

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.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

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.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

What men have seen they know. . . .

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.