Quotes About Insight

The only difference between them is that a man who sees controls his folly, while his fellow men can't.

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between.

permission." "I have to ask your permission," don Juan said, "because you're the only one who can allow the words pent up inside you to be tapped. I think I made the mistake of assuming you understand more than you do. Words are tremendously powerful and important and are the magical property of whoever has them.

Mo? po?iva na vrsti znanja koje ?ovek poseduje. Kakvog ima smisla znati ono što je beskorisno? To nas ne?e pripremiti za neizbežan susret sa nepoznatim.

in every explanation there is a hidden apology.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro

Books are like mirrors , you only see in them what you already have inside you

Women have an infallible instinct for knowing when a man has fallen madly in love with them, especially when the male in question is both a complete dunce and a minor.

Julian had once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro —replicó Julián.

1My father says a hunch is your brain's way of taking a short cut to the truth,' replied Max. 'He's a wise man, your father. What else does he say?' 'That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.

Te sorprendería cómo uno siempre busca en el presente o en el futuro las respuestas que están en el pasado.

A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches. If you bring them out into the light, they get scared and leave.

un libro es un espejo y que sólo podemos encontrar en él lo que ya llevamos dentro, que al leer ponemos la mente y el alma, y que ésos son bienes cada día más escasos.

Stupidity is almost always in the eye of the beholder.

Perhaps part of your problem is that you've been reading the commentators and not the people they were commenting on. A common mistake but fatal when you're trying to learn something.

Truth cannot be found, son. It finds you.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you," answered Julián.

Boeken zijn spiegels: je ziet slechts dat wat je zelf al in je draagt.

The truth is what hurts.