Quotes About Insight

Wise men contemplate the world," he thinks, "knowing full well that they are contemplating themselves.

The Praise of Folly.

Un zoológico es una mejor ventana desde la cual observar el mundo humano que un monasterio

What matters most on your journey is how deeply you see, how attentively you hear, how richly the encounters are felt in your heart and soul.

What legendary travelers have taught us since Pausanius and Marco Polo is that the art of travel is the art of seeing what is sacred.

The wandering French essayist Jacques Reda reminds himself before he leaves his Paris apartment every Sunday morning for his long strolls around the city to see one new thing. . . . he has learned to notice what others ignore.

One of the ancient functions of pilgrimage is to wake us from our slumber.

Harvard Business Review that he said reminded him of me. The article—"Parables of Leadership" by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne—was composed of a series of ancient parables that focused on what the authors called "the unseen space of leadership.

You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you can see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it.

Books are like truth serum. If you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

I have seen myself backward.

Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.

Am I the only one who knows? I'll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me - they just imagine they do.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

Parcifal is one of those corkscrew artifact of culture in which you get the subjective sense that you've learned something from it, something valuable or even priceless; but on closer inspection you suddenly begin to scratch your head and say Wait a minute. This makes no sense.

Maybe it's you fuckers, Fred said, who're seeing the universe backward, like in a mirror. Maybe I see it right.

God, they read a book, he thought, and they spout on forever.

Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?

They know a million tricks, those novelists.

A man driven by rage may stumble, in his passion, onto truth.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

You will manually feel this object with your left hand," he said to himself, "and at the same time you will look at it with your right. And then in your own words you will tell us—" He could not think out any more nonsense. Not without their help.