The best Quotes from The World As I See It

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten, what one has learned in school.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk sign?

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I never think about the future. It comes soon enough.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Stop pitying yourself. Pity yourself, and life becomes an endless nightmare.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

I wanted to run away that day, but you can't run away from your own feet.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.

Things we can't see affect our lives much more than we think.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Art is a way of survival.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.