Quotes About Insight

She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.

Because he spoke to her the way no one else had ever spoken to her, which meant he saw her in a way no one else saw her.

Well? Well, what? Damn it, Nathan, tell me what you think. About what? Lady Sara, Colin persisted. What do you think of her? The truth, Colin? His friend gave a quick nod. Nathan's smile was slow, easy. She'll fit through the window.

Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

sometimes the most simple conclusion is also the most correct

Something about knowing exactly what you're doing, and why.

You cannot change what you cannot make sense of.

There is learning in everything

son. This was a revelation. The more she considered

di lahat ng payo makakabuti para sa 'tin dahil di man lahat ng naranasan ng iba..ay kagaya ng eksaktong nararanasan ng bawat isa.

The sun never knew how wonderful it was," the architect Louis Kahn said, "until it fell on the wall of a building

Wisdom is an ethics of knowledge

A dream only becomes one when you wake up.

You can't force yourself into something you can't understand, you know.

the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who has lost his sight in adulthood.

Wouldn't it be common sense to ask at once what I meant, without brooding over it?

I fixed my eyes in the vicinity of the yellowish-brown darned spot around the little green button at your breast.

What a surprise attack. To imagine that you perceived that my mask was a mask and nevertheless went on pretending to be deceived.

Culoarea ochilor nu-i decât expresia cuvintelor.

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. 

The truth is unpalatable.

a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.