Quotes About Insight

a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

Yang terakhir harus jatuh sebelum yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi. Cuma itu satu-satunya cara - Zulaika

Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. (p. 11)

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it

If what they say is true, and a wise warrior must know her enemy, then it may follow that the only person whom you understand . . . and who really understands you . . . is your enemy.

What are smart people for if not to untangle tangled things?

He has studied all the live strings of the human heart in the same way as one studies the veins of a dead body.

De geschiedenis van een mensenziel , zelfs van de allergeringste, is haast belangwekkender en leerrijker dan de geschiedenis van een geheel volk, vooral wanneer zij het resultaat is van een heldere geest, en wanneer zij geschreven is zonder ijdele wens bewondering en sympathie op te wekken.

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

By writing books, a man turns into a universe.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back, he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.

Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

Man passes through the present with his eyes blindfolded. He is permitted merely to sense and guess at what he is actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can he glance at the past and find out what he has experienced and what meaning it has had.

Vlasta me reprocha que soy un soñador. Parece que no veo las cosas tal como son. No, veo las cosas tal como son, pero además de las cosas visibles veo también las invisibles. Las ideas inventadas no son algo inútil. Son precisamente ellas las que hacen de nuestras casas hogares

But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment

What he did succeed in seeing behind him in his mind's eye was tiny, compressed like a closed accordion.

Some ideas have the force of a bomb exploding.

Ä°stediÄŸin sonsuzluksa, kapat?ver gözlerini!

Es posible echarle en cara al hombre el estar ciego en su vida cotidiana con respecto a tales cualidades y dejar así que su vida pierda la dimensión de belleza.

Looked at from the outside, I haven't experienced anything. Looked at from the outside! But I have a feeling that my experience inside is worth writing about and could be interesting to everybody.

Tapi benar untuk mencaci manusia karena ia buta terhadap 'coincidence' yang terjadi dalam kehidupan sehari-harinya. Karena dengan begitu, ia menghilangkan dimensi keindahan dari hidupnya.