Quotes About Insight

As she was condemned to know more and more, how could it logically stop before she should know Most?

Goethe recommended seeing human nature in the most various forms, and Mr. Babcock thought Goethe perfectly splendid.

Mr. Longdon gave a headshake that was both sad and sharp. "It's all wrong. But YOU'RE all right!" he added in a different tone as he walked hastily away.

Life wears us, uses us -- but we wear it and use it in return, and it is blind, whereas we, after a fashion, see.

It was always the case for him in these counsels that each of his remarks, as it came, seemed to drop into a deeper well. He had at all events to wait a moment to hear the slight splash of this one.

If a few more people felt badly, in this sodden, stolid, stupid race of ours, the world would wake up to an idea or two, and we should see the begininng of the dance.

Men can know the nature of things

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Even the idiot may have a message for us

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.

I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit down and wait for this to happen. But it never did happen- not this way. It happened afterwards, sometimes when I had left the machine and gone for a walk. Yes, suddenly it would come on, like an attack, pell-mell, from every direction, a veritable inundation, an avalanche- and there I was, helpless, miles away from the typewriter, not a piece of paper in my pocket.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

There is one other thing to know … when you have expressed yourself to the fullest, then and only then will it dawn upon you that everything has already been expressed, not in words alone but in deed, and that all you need really do is say Amen!

You see, to me it seems as though the artists, the scientists, the philosophers were grinding lenses. It's all a grand preparation for something that never comes off. Someday the lens is going to be perfect and then we're all going to see clearly, see what a staggering, beautiful world it is…

he saw that it wasn't just a circus, but an arena, just like everywhere.

what does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

We need good titles.

We are, most of us, sleepwalkers, and we die without ever opening our eyes.

When a portrait commences badly it's because you're not describing the woman you have in mind: you are thinking more about those who are going to look at the portrait than about the woman who is sitting for you.

A good lie reveals more than the truth can ever reveal.

Dondequiera que fuese fomentaba la discordia: no porque fuera idealista, sino porque era como un reflector que revelaba la estupidez y futilidad de todo.