Quotes About Insight

If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The pompous son of a bitch knows everything—it's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

A ses yeux, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de bonté était bon, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de loyauté était loyal. Celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs d'intelligence, intelligent. C'est ainsi qu'il n'avait jamais vu clair en sa fille, ni en sa femme, ni en sa seule et unique maîtresse – il était sans doute loin de voir clair en lui...

Around three A.M., I left my bed and went to my desk, my head vibrant with the static of unelaborated thought.

Chekhov: 'The important thing is to find the right smile.

pas la peine de creuser bien loin avec ces gens là, ils portent leur vieil inconscient en bandoulière

víctima, y a las víctimas trato de comprender.

Really, can they be this blind? Can people be so abysmally stupid and live?

The experience of psychoanalysis was probably more useful to me as a writer than as a neurotic, although there may be a false distinction there.

And yet nothing of what he surmised meant a goddamn thing. None of his great ideas disposed of a single one of her difficulties.

If there was ever anything to know, now he knew he never had known it.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.

A very small class of books have nothing in common say that each admits us to a world of its own that seems to have been going on before we stumbled into it, but which, once found by the right reader, becomes indispensable to him.

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

how it is that men, even thoughtful men, can sound as if they never consider anything but always simply know.

I developed a style of writing: first person, so that you are in someone's shoes, facing their dilemmas, and present tense, so that you have no historians' hindsight, you are in the then and there, not looking back.

La revue a été faite par des praticiens, avant d'être des théoriciens.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.