Quotes About Insight

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and, at the same time, hardest to acquire is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty; seeing, an art.

A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.

Una cosa es ser listo y otra ser inteligente.

A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes.

Though the centuries have passed since Koheleth looked upon all things and found them fickle as wind, yet still we know little of what goes to the making of a man—least surely of all, why usually there issue forth only those who see what is, and why rarely, now and then, there comes forth among them the chosen one, Child of the Blessing, who sees not what is, but sees what is not, and seeing thus what is not, imagines also what may be. Yet without this rare one all men are as beasts.

Genius is the capacity for seeing what is not there.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

Un lector vive mil vidas antes de morir. Aquel que nunca lee vive solo una.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes," the Mountain declared. "Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six.

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

When somebody says 'it's just a book' smile because they just don't understand.