Quotes About Insight

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

y ocurrió que casi al terminar el cigarrillo el hombre se golpeó la frente dijo carajo que es el equivalente nacional de eureka y se detuvo

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside.

A lot of blood has gone under the bridge since then, and we have all learned a hell of a lot about the realities of Politics in America. Even the politicians have learned – but, as usual, the politicians are much slower than the people they want to lead.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. But I'm neither a chemist nor an editor; all I do is take the pill or the assignment and see what happens. Now and then I get a bad trip, but experience has made me more careful about what I buy... so if you have a good pill I'm open; I'll try almost anything that hasn't bitten me in the past.

Live steady. Don't fuck around. Give anything weird a wide berth—including people. It's not worth it. I learned this the hard way, through brutal overindulgence.

Live steady. Don't fuck around. Give anything weird a wide berth - including people. It's not worth it. I learned this the hard way, through brutal overindulgence.

No, we are getting ahead of our story, and only an jackass would do that

I was not proud of what I had learned, but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

As the Siamese says: Pea rattles loud in empty head.

sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this—the poets declare!2 Science

A sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this—the poets declare!2 Science

The only thing that is unqualifiedly good is extended vision, the enlargement of one's understanding of the ultimate nature of things.

Your reasoning is fine, but your experience is limited. Enlarge your experience, and your philosophy will be different.

si las puertas de la percepcion fueran depuradas, todo apareceria ante el ser humano tal y como es, infinito

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.

La escritura es una larga introspección, es un viaje hacia las cavernas más oscuras de la conciencia, una lenta meditación

It is good to remove oneself sometimes and get a sense of perspective from a little further away.

Besides, it was all very well to criticise the works of others, but in fact it was quite hard, he discovered, to tell a story.

The humble have once again exhibited more insight than the exalted

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.