Quotes About Insight

Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass.

In everything near and comprehensible he had seen only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless. He

But what's right and what's good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by us.

He would often say the exact opposite of what he had said on a previous occasion, yet both would be right.

Am I mad because I see what others do not, or are they mad that do these things that I see?

He originally

He studied the people of Moscow at the theaters, in the clubs, in the streets, looking for the types he needed. A great many of his fictional characters, if not all of them, had real-life models.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women." ? Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

What I take from my nights, I add to my days.

He smiled happily, as his lover's wit, like his lover's eye, divined meanings unsupported by the evidence.

Those who have taken the side streets have changed the way people live on this planet. But those who stay with The Road find that it is clearly marked all the way with the same sign: "How does the universe work?

The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

A wall of books is a wall of windows.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

Mintea mea zboar? tot mai departe de-a lungul acestei È™osele înguste, mânat? de curiozitate, str?lucind de acceptare, tot mai departe, ca un cârlig cu pene, aruncat cu m?iestrie È™i înfipt adânc în lumina de deasupra pârâului. Undeva, unde eu nu pot ajunge È™i unde nu mai am control, cârligul se îndreapt? È™i devine suli??, suliÈ›a se scurteaz? È™i devine ac, iar acul coase lumea la un loc.

to the young let me say: I am not sage, rebbe, roshi, guru I am Bad Example. to experienced persons who have criticized my life work as cheap, superficial, pretentious, insignificant: you do not know how Right you are.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

I might get to know something about myself that millions of others know better than I. If I could only see myself as others see me.

There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.