Quotes About Insight

I don't care who you are, is smart enough to just dole out advice. Just talk about your own experiences and what you did to help yourself.

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A leader listens to the good reason closely to try and figure out what the real reason is, and then comes up with a solution.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. When everyone spills their guts, they lose their sight. The one who holds on to this very precious resource becomes the one-eyed man, the king.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

You never had to look at me. I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me. Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Men - not just babies like you, but old men, too - they always need to have a woman tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont impossibles.

Books taught me that things that tormented me the most were the very things that connected me to everyone who is alive and who had ever been alive.

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

Giovanni looked at me. And this look made me feel that no one in my life had ever looked at me directly before.

Her long narrow eyes darkened with whatever it was they were beginning to see.

When you're writing, you're trying to find out something which you don't know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don't want to know, what you don't want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.

I'm beginning to think," she said, "that growing just means learning more and more about anguish. That poison becomes your diet—you drink a little of it every day. Once you've seen it, you can't stop seeing it—that's the trouble. And it can, it can"—she passed her hand wearily over her brow again—"drive you mad.

It's funny about people. Just before something happens, you almost know what it is. You do know what it is, I believe. You just haven't had the time—and now you won't have the time—to say it to yourself.

In order to change a situation one has first to see it for what it is.

The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people that know the truth about us. Soldiers don't, statesmen don't, priests don't, union leaders don't…only the poets.

if one could read, in the dullness of his eye, anything so real as a future.

One had to make one's way carefully here, for all these people were blind.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see." ? James Baldwin

TROUPE: Do you have any feelings about yuppies? BALDWIN: I saw them coming. I knew them. They can't, I'm afraid, be taught anything.

An artist's) role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.