Quotes About Insight

Understanding wasn't always the answer. He knew that. Accepting was.

You have a false understanding of what it means to read. Reading is not just turning printed signs into sounds. Reading is something deeper. True reading means hearing what the book has to say and pondering it— perhaps even having a conversation in your mind with the author. It means learning about the world— the world as it really is, not as you wish it to be.

Y qué es la verdad sino la manera en que son las cosas?

Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?

No se le escapa la ironía, a saber, que el que va a enseñar aprende la lección más profunda, mientras que quienes van a aprender no aprenden nada.

Don Quijote dijo entonces: "Buen hombre, no ves el mundo mismo sino solo las medidas que lo envuelven en un velo. ¡Ay de ti, ciego!".

Mirad, leed este libro y todas vuestras preguntas encontrarán respuesta». O «Mirad, he aquí una vida nueva para vosotros».

Sigue dedicándose a la enseñanza [...] porque así aprende la virtud de la humildad, porque así comprende con toda claridad cuál es su lugar en el mundo. No se le escapa la ironía, a saber, que el que va a enseñar aprende la lección más profunda, mientras que quienes van a aprender no aprenden nada.

Lo saben todo, hasta los más pequeños detalles, y sin embargo se resignan.

A ironia não lhe escapa: aquele que vai ensinar acaba aprendendo a melhor lição, enquanto os que vão aprender não aprendem nada.

Uno-dos-tres": ¿acaso es un simple cántico que aprendemos en la escuela, ese cántico automático que llamamos "contar"? ¿O bien existe una manera de ver a través del cántico y percibir lo que hay detrás y más allá de él, a saber: el reino de los números en sí; de

Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't expecting it. People paused for a few seconds, they stopped thinking about themselves and their own business, they thought, and their eyes seemed to blur, because they remembered asking those questions themselves, long ago.

could see her

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

You've got some of me in you, cop.' Wrath's smile stuck around as he slid his glasses back on. 'Course, I always knew you were a royal. Just didn't think it went past the pain-in-the-ass-part is all.

Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes. -Beth

All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.

Why did people always learn things about themselves too late, he thought.

TODOS LOS REYES SON CIEGOS. LOS BUENOS LO SABEN Y USAN MÁS QUE SUS OJOS PARA GOBERNAR.

El futuro —susurró Beth— está en tus ojos.

I tried to tell them. Before I left, I tried to tell them it was all going to come to a bad end. But you cannot feed the truth to people. They have to see it themselves if they're going to.

The things you learn about your kids after the fact.

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?