Quotes About Insight

Look within! The secret is inside you.

Goethe, the great poet-philosopher, once wrote: "I find more and more that it is well to be on the side of the minority, since it is always the more intelligent.

Rarely," said Dax to himself, "does a soldier see with naked eyes. He is nearly always looking through lenses, lenses which are made of the insignia of his rank.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Through pain comes wisdom. I endured a lot of pain.

If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

You can't understand anything unless you unless you understand everything.

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

It is a flower that can be opened in many way...Unfold the petals of [your] stories one by one and [you] will see a great deal.

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot

But games aren't magic, and the most special thing about them isn't unique to them anyway—their artificial, deliberately limited structures teach us how to appreciate everything else that has a specific, limited structure. Which is just to say, anything whatsoever. Play isn't our goal, but a tool to discover and appreciate the structures of all the malls and fishbowls we encounter. Once

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

the first place you go blind is in the eyes

If you never bothered to to look or see anything much you wouldn't be worrying' "I'd have to be very dumb to be like that" "Then be dumb, see nothing, hear nothing

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

One should not make more assumptions than are absolutely necessary.

Only through history can we learn for the future.

Few at this point had the foresight to realize that the path laid out by Providence led into the abyss.