Quotes About Insight

Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary into what it is… a moment in time; an observed fragment of eternity.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

Her face was very beautiful, he thought. He hadn't been sure before, but he was now. The mind that lived behind it made it beautiful, the same way that the flame inside a lantern makes the lantern beautiful.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives at conclusions with one bound, as by direct intuition.

It is interesting that we instinctively make this connection when we talk of "being sensible" about taking wise actions or making wise choices. We also speak of arriving at a more healthy way of seeing and doing as "coming to our senses.

scoffing cometh not of wisdom...

Forget the old advice to think twice. Superforecasters often think thrice—and sometimes they are just warming up to do a deeper-dive analysis.

Superforecasting does require minimum levels of intelligence, numeracy, and knowledge of the world, but anyone who reads serious books about psychological research probably has those prerequisites. So

Doubt is not a fearful thing," Feynman observed, "but a thing of very great value.

When you open the blinds, open them like you're lifting the veil of enlightenment. Or just open the blinds. See?

People who argue do not understand; And people who understand do not argue.

The idea came to me complete from start to finish – a most unusual occurrence, as any writer will tell you, for ordinarily a story has to be struggled with, changed around and mixed up.

One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

If you don't get it, you don't get it." ... "If you don't get it, you may yet.

En fin de compte, l'amour n'a été possible que parce qu'il m'a vu non pas tel que j'étais, mais tel que j'allais devenir.

Je comprends alors qu'on ne voit pas les choses quand on regarde les êtres.

One has an excellent view of the war from the windows at the Ritz.

Para intentar comprender a la gente, hay que excavar hasta las raíces. No basta con darle un empujón al tiempo con el hombro para darle mejor aspecto; hay que arañar entre sus fisuras y obligarlo a dar el máximo. Ensuciarse las manos. A mí no me da asco.

Tu n'étais pas comme les autres car tu regardais toujours au-delà des choses… Tu voulais toujours voir ce qui n'existait pas.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Trying to get to the answer before one has understood all the right questions is a prime source of error in human affairs.