Quotes About Insight

Everything intelligent is so boring.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Understandable, Lindsay.

the sandpaper voice, was all but echoing between my ears. A prick and a prophet all at once. Sometimes shit happens in the dark.…

Life experience?" I repeated tightly. "Big picture? I've had more life experience in fourteen years than you've had in — what are you, like, a hundred?

the First Insight is an awareness of the mysterious occurrences that change one's life, the feeling that some other process is operating.

When people come into our lives at just the right time to give us the answers we need, we should give them money.

experience is the evidence

Perhaps you met so that you could receive some information that will extend your journey here. And doesn't it follow that perhaps you have some information for him as well?

Tiene el presentimiento de cuál será el próximo paso. Siempre. La única ocasión en que esto no ocurre es cuando usted tiene en mente un problema equivocado, el que no corresponde.

On Lincoln: A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Find beauty, try to understand, survive.

Everything's interesting. You just have to look closely." "And most people don't.

at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was life you learned from, passion, experience. The host, a fine old man in seventies, heard her and disagreed. His hair was white. His voice that the faint shrillness of age. "No, everything I've ever learned,", he said, "has come from books. I'd be in the darkness without them.

How can we imagine what our lives would be without the illumination of the lives of others?

Nunca he llegado a tener afinidad ni a sentirme realmente cómodo con personas que no leen o que nunca han leído. Para mí es un requisito esencial. De lo contrario echo en falta algo, amplitud de miras, noción de la historia, una sintonía compartida. Los libros son contraseñas.

To understand everything is to love nothing

Some things, as I say, I saw, some discovered, and some dreamed, and I can no longer differentiate between them. But my dreams are as important as anything I acquired by stealth. More important, because they are the intuitive in its purest state. Without them, facts are no more than a kind of debris, unstrung, like beads. The dreams are as true and manifest as the iron fences of France flashing black in the rain. More true, perhaps. They are the skeleton of all reality.