Quotes About Insight

My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.

It seems there is nothing I cannot find out from my oracle, the computer.

This life is a process of learning.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps, are all a clear because to a clear why.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and color through all the fluctuation of things.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

It's the same with writer's block—a surefire way to break the spell is to begin writing furiously, about anything.

For my money, this is the highest purpose of journaling. A travelogue enables you to look inward while studying the unfamiliar scenes around you,

Hace unos minutos comprendí que cualquiera puede observar a una persona mientras se desviste, pero observarla cuando se viste es mucho más íntimo. Aprendés el orden en que hace las cosas

Common sense is the heart of investing and business management.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

I too have drunk and seen the spider

The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd have to shake their arm and say, 'Look! Look!

una idea concreta de inteligencia práctica».

RAND Corporation,

THERE ARE IDIOTS. Look around.

Is it not at least occasionally the case that we set out on a clear and simple mission and return with something undreamed of? Whether or not we accomplish our original intention becomes unimportant.

What first occurs to us on remembering the dream/reading the text may be the most important thing.