Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

Out of sight, out of mind.

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things. That someone's circumstances may not be what you think they are or what they show to the world.

I see things that nobody else sees

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.