Quotes About Insight

Poets are dammed but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

Poets are damned, but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

Poets are damned, but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

Dissonance (if you are interested) leads to discovery

We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight, intelligence, and industry in trying to arrive at the nearest values to truth. I hope, of course, to argue convincingly that having done this, we have an inescapable duty to seek to inculcate others with these values.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

On the instant when we come to realize that tragedy is second-hand.

I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

Lo que hace la literatura es lo mismo que una cerilla en medio de un campo en mitad de la noche. Una cerilla no ilumina apenas nada, pero nos permite ver cuánta oscuridad hay a su alrededor.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.

I says to myself it's a good thing her eyes are giving out

But then, in the eyes all of them look like they had no age and knew everything in the world, anyhow.

Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact.

I've seed de first en de last, Dilsey said. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.

El que fa la literatura és el mayeix que un llumí enmig d'un camp en plena nit. Un llumí amb prou feines il·lumina, però ens permet veure quanta foscor hi ha al voltant.

Read, read, read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read!

O que a literatura faz é o mesmo que acender um fósforo no campo no meio da noite. Um fósforo não ilumina nada, mas permite ver quanta escuridão existe ao redor.

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

This was what I was chasing: not the exotic, but a broad-beamed understanding of what is what.

She looked at him fondly. You won't never make much of a liar, she said. I can see right through you like lookin down into still water. I expect law and politics is goin to be out of your reach.

It was the first time they had ever talked face to face and Breece divined in a moment of dizzy revelation something about Sutter that no one had noticed before. Why, he is mad, Breece thought. He's not what people say about him at all. He's not just mean as a snake or eccentric or independent. He's as mad as a hatter, and I don't know how they've let him go so long.

Cliches became cliches for a reason; that they usually hold at least a modicum of truth, and the following cliche is truer than most: You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

Be quiet, darling. Let pattern recognition have its way.

The child saw things that were too evident, too obvious for the trained eye.