Quotes About Insight

We always think the thing we need to transform everything - the miracle - is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.

Darkness was a presence. I learned to see in it, I learned to see through it, and I learned to see the darkness of my own.

None can know the human mind. No, not if he read every thought man ever wrote. Every word written is like a child striking a flame against the darkness.

Perhaps art is an eye problem…

Most of us can only see the world we know.

I think I may have missed the world, that the one I've seen is a decoy to get me off the scent.

He's only a dog. Yes but he has found me out.

It was a dark gift but not a useless one.

He's only a dog. Yes but he has found me out.

Some folk say I'm a fool, but there's more to this world than meets the eye.' I waited quietly. 'There's this world,' she banged the wall graphically, 'and there's this world,' she thumped her chest. 'If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.

IN order to discover the rules of society best suited to nations, a superior intelligence beholding all the passions of men without experiencing any of them would be needed.

Ä°nsanlar? daha iyi tan?mak, beni içine düÅŸürdükleri ac?lar? daha iyi duymaya yarad?; üstelik kurduklar? tuzaklar? birer birer gördüÄŸüm halde, düÅŸmeme engel olamad?.

Si algún progreso he hecho en el conocimiento del corazón humano, fue el placer que tenía en ver y observar a los niños lo que me valió tal conocimiento.

No deis a vuestros alumnos lecciones verbales de ninguna clase, puesto que sólo deben recibirlas de la experiencia; tampoco

Cuando me he fijado en algunas páginas de un autor que debe ser leído con atención, mi espíritu le abandona y se cierne en los espacios.

on ne connaît d'où est un homme qu'après qu'il a parlé.

If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

Lori wanted Mom to try on the glasses, too. Mom slipped them on and, blinking, looked around the room. She studied one of her own paintings quietly, then handed the glasses back to Lori. "Did you see better?" I asked. "I wouldn't say better," Mom answered. "I'd say different.

I began to feel like I was getting the whole story for the first time, that I was being handed the missing pieces to the puzzle, and the world was making a little more sense.

Mattie was right about one thing. I should have seen it all coming. I should have seen how much you were hurting, should have seen what Seymour meant to you, should have stopped him from leaving, should have spoken up, done something. If I had seen it coming, we could've fixed whatever was wrong, you and me, we could have made it work. But I didn't. So we can't. Jane was right. I was a danger to you. I never should have come back.

Me gustaría tanto abandonarme, olvidarme, dormir. Pero no puedo, me sofoco: la existencia me penetra por todas partes, por los ojos, por la nariz, por la boca... Y de golpe, de un sólo golpe, el velo se desgarra, he comprendido, he visto.

I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.