Quotes About Insight

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle even though we must keep a little aloof, a little detached when reading.

anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past

I swear I am happy. I have realized that the only happiness in this world is to observe, to spy, to watch, to scrutinize oneself and others, to be nothing but a big, slightly vitreous, somewhat bloodshot, unblinking eye. I swear that this is happiness.

To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class or about the author.

Geniusz to brak przystosowania.

We are still groping perhaps, but we grope intelligently, like a gynecologist feeling a tumor.

The worst madman is the one who fails to consider the possibility of somebody else being mad too.

The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.

We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing.

How little I knew of his life! But now I was learning something every instant. The door standing slightly ajar was the best link imaginable.

the name that the astute reader has guessed long ago

Najdraži san jednog autora jeste da pretvori ?itaoca u gledaoca.

Now I shall spy on beauty as none has Spied on it yet.

I know something. I know something. But expression of it comes so hard !

She groped for words. I supplied them mentally. (He broke my heart. You merely broke my life).

not to spell very well, but to smell very well

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Focus on the big picture, not the numbers.

The lesson: noncustomers tend to offer far more insight into how to unlock and grow a blue ocean than do relatively content existing customers.

Attention is focused consciousness, and consciousness is that power of knowing.

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are. AWARENESS