Quotes About Insight

Instinct is something which transcends knowledge

Cuando comprendes que toda opinión es una visión cargada de historia personal, empiezas a comprender que todo juicio es una confesión.

A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You'll ask me why. It's because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight

My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.

Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

Willingness to be puzzled by what seem to be obvious truths is the first step towards gaining understanding of how the world works.

Una empresa intelectual más ambiciosa origina una coherente comprensión del mundo.

anyone can consider what he now knows and can ask what he knew twenty years ago, and can see that in some unclear fashion he was striving towards something which he can only now understand … if he is fortunate.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover

Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned, utterly foolish, has nothing to do with anything, is exactly the kind of thinking that ought to be got rid of in our society; on still another hand, having that insight into my reaction does not seem to calm my irritation.

I think you often have that sense when you write-that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

As a longtime journalist, this quote from the delicious Nora Ephron made me smile in recognition of its truth: Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at the orgy...everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes.

My brain clears in an amazing way. Nora. We can't do everything. I have been given the secret of life. Altough it's probably a little late.

I discovered then that the world I was living in was so much more interesting than the world I was capable of conceiving.

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.