Quotes About Insight

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own.

Wipe your glasses with what you know.

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

A learner rather Stephen's answer to Deasy who says You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong. (Episode 2, line 403 in the Gabler edition)

By thinking of things you could understand them.

Unsheathe your dagger definitions.

Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he had glimpses of the real world about them.

Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet?

Les erreurs sont les portes de la découverte.

Take a fool's advice. All is not well.

His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.

Kai kurie žmon?s, - sako Blumas, - mato krisl? kito akyje, bet nemato r?sto savojoj.

always read with out reading u cant be any thing

Our end is the acquisition of knowledge.

There's no-one as blind as the fellow that won't see, if you know what that means.

He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavor in secret

Fair are the daughters of men, and fairest are those who read.

Thinking is not yet fully understood.

Lawrence S. Kubie's book Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process.

Clearly I missed the story, I muttered.

Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day.

I made her talk about her family, her home, her music, and her work, everything that defined who she was before Bobby Joe had touched her with his probing hands.

IN MY OPINION, one of the great follies in the world is to put yourself inside the head of dysfunctional people. The mistake we usually make is to assume there is a rationale for their behavior. In most cases, there is none.