Quotes About Insight

If you push novelty of language and metaphor far enough, you can end up with a new way of seeing.

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

So they saw, but they did not see; so they heard, but they did not hear; and they knew, they knew it all, but still they tried not to know.

good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

I like writing that's smart on the page.

If we do not expect the unexpected we will not discover it, since it is not to be searched out and is difficult to apprehend. What

It is we ourselves who are responsible for knowing the truth

What makes the bias particularly pernicious is that we all recognize this bias in others but not in ourselves.

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. [ A favorite aphorism he often used .]

Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.

The reason this happens so often is the creators have to fight through so many dark difficulties, and wade through so much misunderstanding and confusion, they cannot see the light as others can, now the door is open and the path made easy. Please remember, the inventor often has a very limited view of what he invented, and some others (you?) can see much more.

The human eye is a wonderful device," I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. "With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, Ringil said quietly.

from the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. i do not need to be comfortable, and i will not take refuge. i demand to KNOW.

His way to wisdom was to hear out others who might or might not know any more than he did and then to sift it all through his own mental strainer.

It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO

Without them, our dreams may remain terra incognita. I know mine did. Using them, the light of insight is coupled with the power for expansive

The act of making art exposes a society to itself. Art brings things to light. It illuminates us. It sheds light on our lingering darkness. It casts a beam into the heart of our own darkness and says, See?

El arte de escuchar nos proporciona sanación, perspicacia y lucidez. Nos regala alegría y perspectiva. Por encima de todo, nos proporciona conexión.

Debemos permitir que nos golpee el rayo del dolor. No lo olvides: este dolor es útil, el relámpago ilumina.

A mystery can be very simple: if I drive this road, not my usual road, what will I see? Changing a known route throws us into the now. We become refocused on the visible, visual world. Sight leads to insight.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI