Quotes About Insight

Sin embargo, a veces adivinaba. Eran manchas cósmicas que sustituían al entender.

Anyone who lives knows even without knowing that he or she knows. So dear reader,you know more than imagine however much you may deny it.

Cuando se comprende a fondo el vivir, uno se pregunta: pero ¿era solo esto? Y la respuesta es: no es solo esto, es exactamente esto.

My expectations closed the world to me.

Above all, she went on thinking, she understands life because she is not sufficiently intelligent not to understand it.

I shall never be able to understand it, but there must be someone who can. And I shall have to create that someone who can inside myself.

Mi error, sin embargo, debía ser el camino de una verdad: pues sólo cuando me equivoco salgo de lo que conozco y de lo que entiendo. Si la "verdad" fuese aquello que puedo entender, terminaría siendo sólo una verdad pequeña, de mi tamaño

Mas talvez seja assim mesmo: todo homem tem que um dia descobrir a pólvora. Ou então não houve experiência. E seu fracasso? como se conciliar com o próprio fracasso? Bem, toda história de uma pessoa é a história de seu fracasso. Através do qual... Ele, aliás, não falhara totalmente.

And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

It's like this: only when man takes notice through his simple gaze does a beginning appear to him.

Eles olhavam e não a viam. Ela fazia mais sombra do que existia.

I understand a hen, perfectly. I mean, the intimate life of a hen, I know how it is.

Nunca saberei entender mas há de haver quem entenda. E é em mim que tenho de criar esse alguém que entenderá.

Toda compreensão súbita é finalmente a revelação de uma aguda incompreensão. Todo momento de achar é um perder-se a si próprio.

And from the instants I extract the juice of their fruits

Any human being on the planet today can take off their shoes and stand in the dirt and instantly know everything there is to know.

When you understand where the words dirty and holy intersect, you will have found the secret to everything.

Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.

while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.