Quotes About Insight

There is no enjoyment like reading!

Može li iko upoznati ne?iju narav u Batu, ili na kojem drugom javnom mestu... Sve je to ništavno; ne može se tako ništa znati. Samo kada ?ovek vidi ženu u njenom domu, me?u njenim prijateljima, onakvu kakva je uvek. Tek onda može da stekne ispravno mišljenje. Sve drugo je sre?a i naga?anje - a ?esto se ispostavi da je zla sre?a.

How much more must an imaginist, like herself be on fire with speculation and foresight!

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." Later

Elinor abandonó sus esfuerzos, dejando que algún día la convenciera de que así eran las cosas lo único que podía llegar a convencerla: un conocimiento más profundo de la humanidad.

At his house I often met Henry James. I liked to watch that ingenious spider weaving his webs, but to me he had no appeal.

I well remember writing to Louis about my first observations, describing how David Graybeard not only used bits of straw to fish for termites but actually stripped leaves from a stem and thus made a tool. And I remember too receiving the now oft-quoted telegram he sent in response to my letter: Now we must redefine tool, redefine Man, or accept chimpanzees as humans. There

think that wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and

The first place I go in someone's house is their bookshelves. You can tell exactly who they are.

Alanna always says fine, even when Gabby can see the day hasn't been

For me God was something within that allowed me, occasionally, to see.

No other expertise can substitute for locality knowledge in planning, whether the planning is creative, coordinating or predictive.

You can learn more from watching the animals than you can from a guru or a minister — or from reading my book.

Your eye knows it sees, though it cannot see itself except through the use of reflection. In the same way the world as you see it is a reflection of what you are, a reflection not in glass but in three-dimensional reality.

The physicists have their hands on the doorknob. If they paid more attention to their dreams, they would know what questions to ask.

usual. She walked to the couch and sat down, her eyes closed once again. She spoke rather slowly. The following is my reconstruction of the brief and somewhat enigmatic session.) There is no necessity for taking notes. There is something here that you

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

contemplate the difference between a reason and an excuse. A reason is its own reward, but an excuse leads to disappointment every time.

But now I feel that there was some aspect of fatedness about it. If I was going to do what, perhaps, I am meant to do, what I must do, there were things I had to learn.

he hadn't had her as a teacher, which meant that he could tell her what

Labeling them, in fact, prevented knowing them.

She looked out the window of her office, feeling that she had passed through a doorway that she had never realized was there.

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you do not understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.