Quotes About Insight

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Jede Folgerung, die wir aus unseren Beobachtungen ziehen, ist meistens voreilig: Denn hinter den wahrgenommenen Erscheinungen gibt es solche, die wir undeutlich sehen, und hinter diesen wahrscheinlich noch andere, die wir überhaupt nicht erkennen.

Deseo ocuparme un poco del mundo que me rodea, pudiendo, una vez vacío, apartar los ojos de este otro mundo que llevo dentro de la cabeza.

Yo no sé si ese mundo de visiones vive fuera o va dentro de nosotros.

Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come. We dream what is about to happen.''—BAILEY

Hindsight is an exact science.

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious mind until one day some equally random stimulus sparks a connection, and you find that you've combined different items of memory and perception into a completely new insight.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn't that supposed to take time?" Guidanio doesn't smile. "Wisdom does," he says. "People can be clever at any age.

One of the pleasures of dealing with intelligent men, Lin Fong decided, watching seven people ride out the eastern gate in early-morning sunlight, was how much did not have to be spoken.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives.

time Corrie May saw her more clearly than

How little, after all, one knew about the people one knew best

How do I know what's coming? I always do know. Something around the eyes.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

A writer needs to read almost more than his eyes can bear, to know what is going, & what has gone on.... And a writer needs general knowledge. And a writer needs to write. And a writer needs to live richly with eyes open, & heart, too." —

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

What is this moment called when we suddenly recognize what we have never seen? And which gives us a joy like a wound?

One must have travelled a great deal to discover the obvious. One must have thoroughly rubbed and exhausted one's own eyes to get rid of the thousands of scales we start with...There are poets who have strived to do this...in quest of what I call the second innocence, the one that comes after knowing, the one that no longer knows, the one that knows how not to know.

Intelligence is the art of good guesswork.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.