Quotes About Insight

And to make him aware of this meaning can contribute much to his ability to overcome his neurosis.

do not judge the life history of a particular person by the number of pages in the book that portrays it but only by the richness of the content it contains.

We are living in an age of specialists but sometimes a specialist is a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of fact.

Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.

la vida no se trata de dar sentido, sino de encontrar sentido. La vida no es ningún test de Rorschach, sino un cuadro enigmático. El sentido de la vida no puede idearse, hay que descubrirlo.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

This apparently non-symbolic, objective character of technical images lead whoever looks at them to see them not as images but as windows

It was like picking up a book and reading the things the main character did and said and his description and thinking vaguely, at first, Why, I'm that way a little. Then more, until the realization comes like a giant boulder down the hill and crashes into you, pulverizing you with the knowledge that this is you, this character.

He had the gift of all great tacticians. He could focus on the smallest detail and never lose sight of the overall picture.

Superficially it may appear that I am more interested in books than in people; but I think it nearer the mark to say that I am more interested in people as they are revealed to me in books than as they reveal themselves to me in daily contact.

He thinks he knows it all," said Anstey. "Most fools do," retorted Thorndyke. "They arrive at their knowledge by intuition—a deuced easy road and cheap travelling too.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Nunc scio quit sit amor.

Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's.

It is no use trying to sum people up.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

You're the only person I've ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.

She read everything.

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

But this was one way of knowing people, she thought: to know the outline, not the detail, to sit in one's garden and look at the slopes of a hill running purple down into the distant heather.