Quotes About Insight

Si scopre che tanto più è insipida la frase fatta ...., tanto più affilati sono i canini della verità vera che nasconde

the man was so cross-eyed he could stand in the middle of the week and see both Sundays.

It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even of any use to those that are.

David Foster Wallace

Ci sono due pesci che nuotano e a un certo punto incontrano un pesce anziano che va nella direzione opposta, fa un cenno di saluto e dice: Salve, ragazzi. Com'è l'acqua? I due pesci giovani nuotano un altro po', poi uno guarda l'altro e fa Che cavolo è l'acqua?».

unpleasant-fact specialist

It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely giftes as athletes, are the only ones truly able to see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied.

that they always give their horoscope readers (like Joyce every morning, over vegetable juice she made herself in a special machine) that special eerie feeling of particularity and insight, exploiting the psychological fact that most people are narcissistic and prone to the illusion that they and their problems are uniquely special and that if they're feeling a certain way then surely they're the only person who is feeling like that.

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

Denial,' Charlotte finally says, 'is not a river in Egypt.' 'Hows about the both of you shut the fuck up,' says Emil Minty.

L'accettazione della realtà è una fonte di energia in se stessa

Television," after all, literally means "seeing far";

It starts to turn out that the vapider the AA cliche, the sharper the canines of the real truth it covers.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

For novelists have the privilege of knowing everything.

One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know…

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

In jest, there is truth.

If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.