Quotes About Insight

Well, almost nothing, or depending on your generosity of spirit, hardly anything, for he could hitch an ox and plough a furrow straight or thatch a roof or hone his scythe until the edge was bright and sharp or tell by a sniff of the breeze what the day would bring or with a glance when a grape was sweet and ready.

Be content with what thou seest; and wait until Time and Experience shall teach thee to find jealousy behind the sweet smile, and hatred under the honeyed word!' "This

No pretendía ser un sabio, pero había bebido hasta emborracharse en el manantial de la sabiduría.

La mucha luz es como la mucha sombra: no deja ver.

Poetry, like history, is made; poetry, like truth, is seen.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dead inside, and dangerous.

I don't know a soul who couldn't see a fool jest by lookin' in the glass. I been one myself, once't or twice't. So hesh up now. Cryin' ain't go'n do no good.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.

It wasn't an alternative to experience, or an escape from it. Not if you did it right. Reading was the only way we could transcend our own experience and deeply engage in that of another's.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

When you know something, really know something, it tends to stand the test of time.

Your past is not an excuse. But it is an explanation - offering insight into the questions so many of us ask ourselves: Why do I behave the way I behave? Why do I feel the way I do? For me, there is no doubt that our strengths, vulnerabilities, and unique responses are an expression of what happened to us.

Ketika kamu tidak tahu apa yang harus dilakukan, jangan lakukan apa-apa maka jawaban akan datang.

Your life is always speaking to (for) you.

every experience is a valuable teacher.

Every right decision I've ever made has come from my gut, and every wrong decision I've ever made was a result of me not listening.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear and then recognize them.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

Çünkü bir baÅŸkas?n?n belleÄŸini a??r a??r edinmekten baÅŸka neydi ki okumak?

Çünkü bana göre siyaset, en sonunda bizim gibi olmayanlar? kararl?l?kla anlamama, romanc?l?k ise anlama iÅŸidir.

Only imbeciles are innocent.

Çünkü benim gibilerin daha sonra yaÅŸayabileceÄŸi ikinci hayat, elindeki kitaptan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.