Quotes About Insight

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He had been privy to much, and blind to even more.

He said the best contract lawyers were the ones who heard the unspoken. The hopes and dreams and fears that both sides held, sometimes so tightly they didn't even know it themselves. A good contract attorney has to be a mediator first and foremost. And the best mediator is someone who can translate conflicting emotions into some form of harmony. But to do that, they have to look beneath the surface. See the unseen. Hear the unspoken.

No one but a person who has been guilty himself could read guilt in others so well.

How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.

You Won't Be Thanked For Kicking Down The Doors of Perception And Revealing Infinity To Others.

In the land of the blind the third eyed man is king

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood - Addison Goodheart pg. 84

Buku yang bisa ku baca berulang-ulang, dengan sudut pandang baru dan pengertian baru setiap kalinya.

The cruelty of children comes as news to no one.

Por qué tolerar la oscuridad? Todo ya está aquí y está claro si sabemos mirar con la atención debida.

There are two ways that you can learn about the world. You can travel or you can read.

That is the greatness of literature, and its paradox, that in reading about fictional others we end up reading about ourselves. Sometimes this unwitting self-examination provokes smiles of recognition, while other times, . . . it provokes shudders of worry and denial. Either way, we are the wiser, we are existentially thicker.

You will always see less as you grow older, otherwise you would not want to go on.

If you haven't lost your mind yet, that's because you haven't seen very much.

Experts flatten the world.