Quotes About Insight

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?

Now that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to understand.

a Revelation. What I mean by this is that I knew it to be true before I understood why or what steps had led me there.

Perhaps that is what it is like with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not. Perhaps that is what Raphael means.

Without the journals I would be all at sea.

Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.

It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.

Peut-être est-ce là ce à quoi ressemble la compagnie des autres. Peut-être même que des gens qu'on aime et admire profondément peuvent vous pousser à voir le monde sous un jour qu'on aime pas et qu'on n'admire pas non plus.

Perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation.

Reality was getting too dense.

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them. This was the way I felt about the tunnels. They weren't news to anybody else, but they made such an impression on me that I felt I'd conjured them into being.

I know what you are, said his look. What were we, that they could know us so quickly and so well?

Razumevanje in površnost, nista odvisna od let, ampak od poti, ki jo kdo prehodi.

La comprensión nace de la humildad, no del orgullo de saber.

Lady Anne Bishop, he was coming to realize to his growing delight, was far more complex than he'd anticipated. Each moment the plans he'd worked out to win her needed to be modified and adapted as he learned something new about her.

That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends—know that...

Choose to view life through God's eyes.

The ability to ascribe thoughts to others, thoughts that might differ from our own, is a sophisticated cognitive skill, known as "theory of mind.

Hyenas 'appear to violate the rules of mammalian biology,' Holekamp tells me. 'Studying the oddballs can teach you about the basics,' she explains. 'They allow us to gain insight into what the rules actually are.' And by showing us an alternative way to sociality and intelligence, they help us better understand our own beloved pets, and perhaps even ourselves.

All you have to do is recognize them as teachers and be ready to hear their truths.

As he did with the electric eels, Scott is trying to figure out a way to induce the toads to show themselves. How? "You need to get within the mind of the toad," he says.

Confusion is the first step toward clarity