Quotes About Insight

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-without my even having to read them- that there were people in the world more desperate, more self-absorbed, more boring than I was. - about memoirs

When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This is what we mean by "bones.

At the time, I thought this was just one of those vague things adults say to remind you that you're a kid who doesn't know what adults know. But it seemed now it was one of those specific things adults say to remind you that you're a kid who doesn't know what adults know.

Open your eyes to the magic around you.

The final goal of which an ethnographer should never lose sight…is, briefly, to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world

Es un buen libro aquel que se abre con expectación y se cierra con provecho".

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

May you see light where there was only darkness, hope where there seemed nothing but despair, may your fear be replaced with faith and insight, may you feel some victory in the defeat and a sense of the sacred web into which we are all woven. Most of all may you stay in tune with your capacity to love life even as you are engulfed by death.

Take note, complaining is not the same as prayer. It doesn't require any spiritual insight to grumble.

It is only faith that makes me know Him as He is. By means of it I learn more about Him in a short time than I would learn in many years in the schools.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

He was cognizant that perception would be as important as experience.

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

My friend, the poet Mark Nepo, says that the pain was necessary in order to know the truth. But we don't have to keep the pain alive in order to keep the truth alive.

developed post-traumatic wisdom.

To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic.

Yes, well, apparently, you don't know everything. What a surprise

All the music I write is a search for myself.

We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.