Quotes About Insight

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Tunnel vision is deadly. We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision.

There was something wrong; nobody else had to tell me. Writing it down made me see it. I'd told myself, as if writing to another person.

Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own.

The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.

The gift of solo moments is that they are wholly ours. On or off the road, solo moments connect us inward to ourselves with heightened clarity and insight. They also direct our energies out into the world, magnetizing us to new people and experiences we may not have encountered under any other circumstance.

New insights from being present are a gift.

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

Reading is soul work!

look into her eyes is to see

Pertence verdadeiramente ao seu tempo, é verdadeiramente contemporâneo, aquele que não coincide perfeitamente com este, nem está adequado às suas pretensões e é, portanto, nesse sentido, inatual; mas, exatamente por isso, exatamente através desse deslocamento e desse anacronismo, ele é capaz, mais do que os outros, de perceber e apreender seu tempo.

Grasp firmly with thy mind the near and the far together

Vedi Jim, tu sei una persona intelligente. Molto intelligente. Lo sei sempre stato ma purtroppo ti accontenti di essere solo una persona furba.

Mucho más potente que el oro es, en opinión mía, la inteligencia.

Onca kulak var, ama beyin çok az.

Ci sono cose, pensò, che i nostri occhi guardano senza vedere, ma il subconscio le vede e le nota. Il subcosciente ha l'occhio della macchina fotografica e non gli sfugge niente. Tanto è vero che, alle volte, dopo un sacco di tempo ci ricordiamo di aver visto un particolare che non sapevamo di aver visto.

True knowledge, which is the ultimate wisdom, comes from within the heart. What emerges is a resonance--a knowing--which is beyond all words and which is the ultimate expression of our spirit within.

If one wanted to gain real understanding of Speer, one had to realize first that almost everything he did–though, as shown by some of our talks, not quite everything–had a purpose, generally directed towards his own benefit.

a inteligência não protege de nada, nem sequer da estupidez.

Good council has no price.

mean you do it to purify your whole outlook and get an absolutely new conception of what everything's about.

Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself.

He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.

Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.