Quotes About Insight

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

a generation: the black night gave me black eyes still I use them to seek the light

Moral growth corresponds with people's ability to see the world from an ever-increasing number of perspectives and act accordingly.

MANY men say that in our dreams There are but lies and idle themes; And yet a man can dream such dreams As are not lies, rather, it seems, Their meaning, later, becomes clear. We may invoke as witness here

It seemed as if I could see things in her that others couldn't see, qualities which not even she was aware of. It was as I I could already see in her the woman she would later become.

Les vérités qu'on aime le moins à apprendre sont celles que l'on a le plus d'intérêt à savoir.

The other mitigating circumstance was my thinking that I knew all there was to know about love because I'd read novels when, in fact, the only thing that truly teaches us about life is a punch in the face.

Quien encuentra hace rato que está buscando, aunque no lo sepa.»

Águilas picotean los ojos de los ciegos hasta obligarlos a ver.»

Eso es lo malo de que los amigos nos conozcan tanto, nos adivinan desde lejos.

We don't discover, we don't learn. We just remember things that we have forgotten…

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

Her mother said fairy tales didn't have anything to do with the world, but Ofelia knew better. They had taught her everything about it.

Saber a qué le tememos, es sabes quiénes somos.

Sometimes we need to see what we feel so we can know about it.

The most intelligent of creatures, often make the fewest sounds.

Shiver by shiver, we gain insight [...].

It's always just a few who know where to look and how to listen, that is true. But for the best stories, a few are just enough.

They often took a difficulty I had and turned it into an amusing little anecdote. They would take a deadly seriousness, my seriousness, and turn it into a great laugh that they would then let out into the room. What kind of people were they to do that? The amusing anecdote had sharp edges, flew into me and scratched my soul.

Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. —JAMI, BAHARISTAN

What one writes is only the ashes of one's experience.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

the longing for wisdom itself is wisdom' - 'search for a fixed point within yourself, my child, that the world cannot reach' - regard everything that happens as a lifeless painting and do not let yourself be touched by it

Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.