Quotes About Insight

La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...

Give me clarity. Give me reasons. Give me answers. Flash.

It is only after the intellect collapses that any true communication exists.

People in France have a phrase: Spirit of the Stairway. In French, Esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party...

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect.

Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it. That first person had been introduced to the complicated DNA sequence of proper nouns and compound verbs. Outside of language he didn't exist. There was no method to escape. To feel anything, anymore, required ever-increasing amounts of words. Great landfills and airlifts of words. It took a mountain of talk to achieve even the tiniest insight.

Instead of writing about a character, write from within the character.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Lo que había visto en aquel instante ni siquiera era una montaña. No era un recurso natural. No tenía nombre. -Esa es la gran meta- dijo-. Encontrar una cura para el conocimiento.

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Books were usually a way for her to power her own brain down and borrow someone else's for a while.

Failure has to be illuminating: an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

Furthermore … WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.' " Colleen's face scrunched up. "What Bible passage is that?" "It's not the Bible, it's Isaac Asimov.

If the sum of our experiences are, say, our Work-In-Progress, our Facebook pages, our video games, our movies, our Other People's Books, then we don't know jack shit. Is that you?

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.

statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis

Sometimes you have to lose a lot of Q-tips before you realize you have a hole in your head. Colors Insulting To Nature

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want.

but this is what I think: you only see what you expect to see. Your brain lets the rest go. Because life's tumult, with its infinite sounds and smells and signs, rushes around you like a river in flood: you can only take in, you can only grasp, so much.

The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

Even though this world is narrow, it is wide... to those who understand. This world isn't the only one.