Quotes About Insight

Thais have a saying about a frog living inside a coconut shell. The frog believes that the world inside the shell is the whole universe. In the private investigation business, Vincent Calvino had clients who like the frog. What they saw from inside their shell blinded them, made them unable to solve a problem. So they hired Calvino. He knew the drill. Shells offered comfort and security. Leaving could be a dangerous business.

I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.

As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.

My behavior makes perfect sense to me.

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Furthermore, in a new study reported in the journal Science, subjects who read Alice Munro stories—specifically, the collection Too Much Happiness—demonstrated sharper social and psychological insight than those who did not.

Mein eigentliches Werk besteht, allen Ernstes, nicht aus Prosa oder Vers: sondern in der Erkenntnis meiner Dummheit.

Alguien que lo mire desde fuera -todo el mundo es mirado desde fuera por los demás- siente siempre una cosa mejor o peor que aquel que conoce el asunto, trátese de felicidad o de desgracia, penas de amor o "decadencia artística".

What I do best are the absurdities of daily life: I observe, add up these observations, increase them to the nth degree and draw the square root from them, but with a different factor from the one I increased them by.

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The aesthetical imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act

That is a pity; they must have known about whole worlds that we cannot touch.

I don't know how you humans ever get anything done, you ask so many questions.

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.

I study long-married couples and decide that wives are like bras: sometimes the most matronly are the most supportive.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life'.

This is all there is! So that you children will know and live right!

He who laughs last didn't get it.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.