Quotes About Insight

Stories are tricky things, aren't they?

To truly love takes seeing truly.

But seeing someone is not the same as knowing them.

As if the years he had spent interpreting signs that no one else could even see had stretched him, pulled him out of focus.

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

Sometimes it is better to know an unpleasant thing than nothing at all.

Who helped mes see what I could not.

To really understand nature, we have to do more than glance, and we have to think beyond our knee-jerk reaction that insists since we make things with intent, nature must also be made with intent. If we want to understand better than a child, we have to look harder, and think deeper.

From the mouths of children and fools we will hear the truth spoken

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

The whole world is beautiful, the art is in the seeing.

Paint the essential character of things.

everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

So much of medicine is translation disguised as insight. You tell the doctor what's wrong with you in English and she tells you back in Greek, as the joke goes. Which is not to say that words can't taste like medicine. Placebo, in Latin, means "I shall be pleasing.

I don't understand. How does reading stories about others answer those questions for me?" "That is what I'm hoping you will understand—every story we read, Sang Ly, is about us, in one way or another.

I don't know if it becomes literature...I just know the two added words cause me to look at the ordinary sentences differently. And quite honestly, I find that to be magical!

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

truth hurts just like needles, but they both provide pathways to the cure!

your reality is only what you conceive in your mind!

Jan Smuts, the brilliant young Transvaal state attorney, wrote of Botha that he had a natural sympathy that made it possible for him to "get extremely close to others and to read their minds and divine their characters with marvellous accuracy. It gave him an intuitive power of understanding and appreciating men which was very rare." Botha

When I am reading a poem, I rarely feel alone in the room. The poet and I are together. It's as if the poet wrote a secret diary years ago.

Enlighten yourself and you will enlighten the viewer. - Jean-Christophe Ammann