Quotes About Insight

Because Anna Karenina could not read the novel she held in her hands, we read Anna Karenina the novel.

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

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Those who can truly see, know.

Toutes ces choses que j'avais apprises, auxquelles j'avais cru jusque-là, n'étaient plus que des détails dépourvus de tout intérêt, et des choses que j'ignorais surgirent des recoins où elles s'étaient terrées jusque-là et me lancèrent des signaux.

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El verdadero placer de leer una novela empieza con la capacidad de ver el mundo no desde el exterior, sino a través de los ojos de los protagonistas que viven en ese mundo.

But in the information age, the paradigm for managers has shifted from managing bodies to managing minds. It is true that a body at rest is a body that is not producing. But a mind at rest could be a manager's, and a company's, greatest asset. Employees who are working ceaselessly on a problem may not be giving their brains the space they need to synthesize information and come up with insightful solutions. Think

Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.

Knowledge, then, is one of the secret keys which unlock the hidden mysteries of a successful life.

A man will remain a rag picker as long as he has only a rag picker's vision.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life. —Smiles.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Madness, and then illumination.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's not our reason. I think that most of us read these stories that we know are not 'true' because we're hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story.

Quim, she said, don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin