Iain Pears Quote

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure...

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our em...

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a...

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned....

To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.