Quotes About Insight

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

In a world darksome as this'n I believe a blind man ort to be better sighted than most.

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

For let it go how it will, he said, God speaks in the least of creatures. The kid thought him to mean birds or things that crawl but the expriest, watching, his head slightly cocked, said: No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life. Is that right? Aye.

There's two kinds of people that dont ask a lot of questions. One is too dumb to and the other dont need to.

There's data in the world available only to those who have reached a certain level of wretchedness. You dont know what's down there if you havent been down there. Joy on the other hand hardly even teaches gratitude. A thoughtful silence.

Do you think you can learn all there is to know about yourself from yourself?

There's two kinds of people that dont ask a lot of questions. One is too dumb to and the other dont need to.

each the other's world entire.

Don't be ignorant your whole life.

Let me put it to you this way. As the vicar said to the choirboy. To the seasoned traveler a destination is at best a rumor.

There's data in the world available only to those who have reached a certain level of wretchedness. You dont know what's down there if you havent been down there.

He said that if a person understood the soul of the horse then he would understand all horses that ever were.

NERO- Menomale che dici così, professore. Perché non ci trovo niente da ridere manco io. E' solo che ogni minuto che passa mi meraviglio di più. Ma possibile che non ti vedi, zuccherino? Sei trasparente come il vetro. Vedo le rotelline che ti girano dentro la testa. Gli ingranaggi. E vedo anche la luce. Una luce buona. Una luce vera. Tu non la vedi?

No, said the blind man. I do not mean in this house. I mean here. Among us.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.

The actual process of thinking -in any discipline- is an unconscious affair...The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access.

You couldnt have understood what they were talking about. What I understood was that I had to learn what it was that they were talking about.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

Bücher müssen schwer sein, weil die ganze Welt in ihnen steckt.