Quotes About Insight

Don't ask for the truth, boy, unless you're ready to hear it.

We write that bad ending before we even get there." "Isn't that what makes us human? The ability to look at the present and predict what's likely to happen?" "But we're really not all that good at it, are we?

Time has a way of putting things in perspective, of assigning meaning.

We beginnen pas werkelijk te leven aan het einde van de filosofie, op haar ruïne, wanneer we haar verschrikkelijke onbenulligheid hebben begrepen, en begrepen hebben dat het nutteloos was toevlucht tot haar te nemen, dat zij geen enkele hulp biedt.

That bastard c'n spot a gnat from three miles off, an' then read its mind.

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?

Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Stack, like every man who has never known a woman, believed he knew a great deal about women.

Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Do you know what the women have a gift for?' 'What?' 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,' he says. 'Do you know what the women have a gift for?' 'What?' 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

It was one of those moments when life's disguises are stripped away, when you see clearly what is real, and all you can say to yourself is "useful to get that learned.

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.

cannot recognize attitudes and beliefs

Clara Claiborne Park

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?

Refugiei-me na doideira porque a razão não me bastava.

Se não tivesse sido eu, eu não saberia, e tendo sido eu, eu soube.

This text that I give you is not to be seen close up: it gains its secret previously invisible roundness when seen from a high-flying plane. Then you can divine the play of islands and see the channels and seas. Understand me: I write you an onomatopoeia, convulsion of language. I'm not transmitting to you a story but just words that live from sound. I speak to you thus: "Lustful trunk.

Com surpresa descobriu que o conhecia profundamente. Apenas superficialmente é que o desconhecia.