Knowledge Quote by Simon Van Booy Download Open image ““...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”” — Simon Van Booy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knowledge Stories Storytelling Understand Myself Understanding Understanding-oneself
“And when you spoke to me, I did not know That to my life's high altar came its priest.” — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“One of the finest minds I've ever known...even if he was a priest.” — Kulgan The Magician Copy Share Image
“...in order to make you understand, to give you my life, I must tell you a story.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The priest accepted me, I accepted the priest, so everything went off smoothly.” — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.” — Shannon Donnelly Copy Share Image
“...he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“I sense there’s a lot of things you need to hear. And more and more, I want to be the one who says them… — Sarah Noffke Copy Share Image
“There's always more to the story, Catriona," She replied. "That's the wonderful thing about stories.” — Heather Vogel Frederick Copy Share Image
“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks – that even the… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image