Unseen Truths Quotes

You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

The truth seems to love the small print.

What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

It is no more irrational for the mind to take the word of the Eternal Word than for the eye to use light and for the ear to welcome sound.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.