Quotes About Insight

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.

Subjectivity is objective.

Los pergaminos Normas y Proverbios Los malvados de corazón probablemente sabrán algo

El experimento del profesor Kugelmass -Señor Kugelmass, lo peor que puede usted hacer es ignorar la realidad. Limítese a declarar aquí sus pensamientos, y los dos juntos lo analizaremos. Ya lleva usted en tratamiento un tiempo suficiente como para saber que nadie se cura de la noche a la mañana. Después de todo, yo soy analista, no mago. -Entonces lo que necesito quizás es un mago -exclamó Kugelmass, levantándose. Y con eso dio por terminada su terapia.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

Nem! Nem! Nem! A szenvedésem igenis számít. Élni akarok. Muszáj belekevernem az életemet a világegyetem életébe. Az élet egy kémlelÅ'nyílás, az egyetlen pici út egy végtelenségbe – hogyan hagyhatnám ki ezt a kurta, sz?k pillantást, amit a világra vethetek? Nekem csak ez jutott!

You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested....

The wise person is the one who knows all things in compliance with what is fitting.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

I am a shepherd, too, like Polyphemus, so I knew all about it.

Yah, right. Crazy people. Mas Locos. But one thing about crazy people--they see things other people don't.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small—like looking at the Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.

Non esiste in astratto un buon libro: un libro è buono soltanto quando appaga una fame umana, o confuta qualche umano errore.

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin

He was willing to wait until the last dollar was broken: in the meantime he was content. You never know the soul of a city, he said, until you are down on your luck. Now, he felt, he had been here long enough to understand her.

I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvellous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small-- like looking at the Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.