Quotes About Insight

The art of reading is to know and understand the things which go unsaid.

Something grows from eyes, taking root as if a potato sends to earth what it can see, and yet the seeing part is what they say is poisonous about the potato. That first sprout is what can grow, planted, moving upward, seeing in light.

It is struggle that strengthens and makes us aware, that tempers the spirit and opens the mind's eye.

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

But...that doesn't make any sense...!' 'It does if you're a goat.

Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.

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T)he path to wisdom lies not in certainty, but in trying to understand.

shoulders. He seemed to know what Salva was thinking

When you're living through an experience, it's hard to imagine yourself outside it. But when you revisit it in a Write, you see yourself in a fuller context, which gives you information you didn't have before

Go on rummaging, brushing off dust, though you may find later that it was the dust you wanted.

In my experience, men who sit in corners are the ones to watch.

Good mathematics is a soliloquy, communicated.

Vision is three-dimensional - consisting of insight, foresight, and perspective.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza

To listen to his subtle comments on events of the present was like listening to a gentleman from the Biedermeier period expressing opinions about a modern airplane factory.

For a large part of what I know about people and things I have to thank an art of listening which wise teachers taught me early.

Whether we liked it or not we were involuntary witnesses to every man's behaviour, to the way he walked, the way he ate, the way he slept, the way he washed, the way he put on his clothes. No one could hide anything from anybody.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.