Quotes About Insight

it true you haven't read any of these books?' 'Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,' answered Julián.

Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as they wish us to be.

Knjiga je pismo koje pisac pise sam sebi, kako bi si rekao stvari koje drugacije ne bi mogao shvatiti.

Ein Dichter ist das einzige Wesen, das mit den Jahren das Sehvermögen zurückgewinnt.

a hunsh is your brain's way of taking a shortcut to the truth.

Julián me había dicho alguna vez que un relato era una carta que el autor se escribe a sí mismo para contarse cosas que de otro modo no podría averiguar.

Is it true you haven't read any of these books?" "Books are boring." "Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you," answered Julián.

A hunch is your brain's way of taking a shortcut to the truth

No sé yo mucho de mujeres, la verdad. —Saber no sabe nadie, ni Freud, ni ellas mismas

Valahányszor szóra nyitja az ajkát ez az ember, kopernikuszi fordulatot vesz a nyugati gondolkodás rendszere.

Gostava de saborear o desenrolar do enredo e esmiuçar a arquitetura de cada frase,acreditando que,se decifrasse a música daquela prosa,descobriria algo acerca daquele homem que nunca conhecera...

Alicia Gris sees what the rest don't see. Her mind works differently from the rest. Where everyone else sees a locked door, she sees a key. Where others lose track, she picks up the trail. It's a gift, one could say. And the best thing is that no one sees her coming.

Os livros são espelhos:só se vê neles o que a pessoa tem dentro.

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

si uno quiere que las cosas salgan bien hay que poner a una mujer al mando. —No me

There are a lot of morons out there who only go by appearances

Las apariencias no siempre engañan, pero casi siempre atontan

Ve lo que los demás no ven. Su mente funciona diferente a la del resto. Donde todos ven una puerta cerrada, ella ve una llave. Donde los demás pierden la pista, ella encuentra el rastro

What was essential, he argued, was not what the pursuer could see or guess, but what was within range of the pursued person's vision.

future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.

Julián 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.

El silencio hace que hasta los necios parezcan sabios durante un minuto.

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

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