Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: certainty doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Laurens Van der Post We have to be utterly broken before we can realize that it is impossible to better the truth. It is the truth that we deny which so tenderly and forgivingly picks up the fragments and puts them together again. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: reality perception mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Story by Jung of a conversation with a chief of the Pueblo Indians: Jung asked the chief's opinion of the white man and was told that it was not a high one. White people, said Ochwiay Biano, seem always upset, always restlessly looking for something, with the result that their faces are covered with wrinkles. He added that white men must be crazy because they think with their heads, and it is well-known that only crazy people do that. Jung asked in surprise how the Indian thought, to which Ochwiay Biano replied that naturally he thought with his heart. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: invisible spirit smell animals blindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have to be utterly broken before we can realize that it is impossible to better the truth. It is the truth that we deny which so tenderly and forgivingly picks up the fragments and puts them together again. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: reality perception mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Story by Jung of a conversation with a chief of the Pueblo Indians: Jung asked the chief's opinion of the white man and was told that it was not a high one. White people, said Ochwiay Biano, seem always upset, always restlessly looking for something, with the result that their faces are covered with wrinkles. He added that white men must be crazy because they think with their heads, and it is well-known that only crazy people do that. Jung asked in surprise how the Indian thought, to which Ochwiay Biano replied that naturally he thought with his heart. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: invisible spirit smell animals blindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “doubt” Doubt is the father of invention. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: doubt invention skepticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If a man loves you, you'll never question where his heart is. He will never place doubt in your mind. You'll actually feel the love he has for you, not because he has told you, but because his actions show and prove it every single day. —Leslie Braswell in Get the Guy More about this quote Tags: love man doubt actions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing. —Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty change doubt impermanance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. —Scott Adams More about this quote Tags: doubt stupidity public Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: love doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Doubt is the father of invention. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: doubt invention skepticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a man loves you, you'll never question where his heart is. He will never place doubt in your mind. You'll actually feel the love he has for you, not because he has told you, but because his actions show and prove it every single day. —Leslie Braswell in Get the Guy More about this quote Tags: love man doubt actions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing. —Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty change doubt impermanance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. —Scott Adams More about this quote Tags: doubt stupidity public Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: love doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email