Quotes About Insight

Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.

You were given a gift. You were given the chance to see who you were, to learn from mistakes, and to change and grow. Few are granted such insight.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud. "It certainly helps," Vivian says.

Every decision I make is determined solely by the spark and limitations of my own perspective

How quickly, with a slight twist in perception, do people's strengths become flaws!)

I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. —MADELEINE L'ENGLE, The Arm of the Starfish

Jeez Louise, this is why

What do you choose to take with you? What did you leave behind? What insights did you gain?

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

Blindur er boklaus madur - Blind is the bookless man.

So you see, it doesn't terribly matter if you miss one item of knowledge in a series of similar items because providing you understand the series you already know without knowing that you know.

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Don't cater to stupidity.

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

Study the past if you would define the future. —Confucius O

So come Cinderella, let me take you to the ball again. Perhaps you will see more than I did, or perhaps you will begin to understand how difficult it is to understand. Truth is never easily wrested from the stuff of life, and this stuff was even stranger and sometimes more repellent than the usual fare.

She wants him to become enchanted, to enter so deeply into her distress that his view of the world is changed and the insult of easy answers is no longer possible. Enchantment always causes complications. He is wise to resist, as she is equally wise to press for a true connection and nothing less.

Non è che siamo degli emarginati, è che abbiamo imparato cos'è che non ci serve.

Perhaps it was a flaw inherent in the inventive mind to have vision but not foresight. Was it that so much concentration went into developing the idea that they could not see beyond it? Or was it an inhibition of the urge to see beyond that allowed them to develop ideas before they could be dismissed as folly?

True insight comes from standing in solidarity with victims.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

She has never learnt to yawn And so she hasn't the smallest comprehension Of those who can.