Quotes About Insight

Levi always said if you heard hoofbeats, expect to see horses, not zebras.

Then they'd looked at each other, realization

Expression, voice, and even gestures can tell one much that is not revealed in words.

Only experience, she had learned somewhere along the way, led to wisdom.

How will I know." "You won't until afterwards.

I'm gay. I know things.

Fear is smart until…" He headed for the door, paused as he reached for the knob. "Until what?" He looked back at her. "Until you realize you're afraid of the wrong thing.

To be a great photographer you had to see first and feel later.

Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.

Es wäre lächerliche und ungerechtfertigte Selbstüberhebung, wenn wir annehmen wollten, wir seien energischer oder intelligenter als das Altertum - unser Wissensstoff hat zugenommen, nicht aber die Intelligenz. Darum sind wir neuen Ideen gegenüber gerade so borniert und unfähig wie die Menschen in den dunklesten Zeiten des Altertums. An Wissen sind wir reich geworden, nicht aber an Weisheit.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

We analyse dreams to help us with problems because, as Jung says, "the problem is much greater than I, and it is wise to hold fast to the words the dream gives, because one cannot expect to be wiser than nature".

To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

For all my respect for history, it seems to me that no insight into the past and no re-experiencing of pathogenic reminiscences – however powerful it may be – is as effective in freeing man from the grip of the past as the construction of something new…no matter what the original circumstances from which they arose, [the neurosis] is conditioned and maintained by a wrong attitude which is present all the time and which, once it is recognized, must be corrected now.

Our dreams are like windows that allow us to look in, or to listen in, to that psychological process which is continually going on in our unconscious.

one of the most important therapeutically effective factors is subjecting yourself to the objective judgment of others.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

The psychologist has come to see that nothing is achieved by telling, persuading, admonishing, giving good advice.

Because I carried the war in me, I foresaw it.

Drawings are the product of intense observation, not intellectual interpretation.

When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard. I have deeply appreciated the times that I have experienced this sensitive, empathic, concentrated listening.

I would like to make it very plain that these are learnings which have significance for me. I do not know whether they would hold true for you. I have no desire to present them as a guide for anyone else. Yet I have found that when another person has been willing to tell me something of his inner directions this has been of value to me, if only in sharpening my realization that my directions are different.

To respond to our times we must first understand our times.