Tamora Pierce Quotes

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

If you would judge, understand.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

One must be an inventor to read well.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

The question is just as important as the answer.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

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

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.