Quotes About Insight

Perhaps nothing escapes this fate but the liveliness and nimbleness of the mind—the very qualities with which the novel is written, qualities that belong to a universe other than the one we live in.

The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune.

For this woman," Arkadian Porphyrich continues, seeing how intently you are drinking in his words, "reading means stripping herself of every forgone conclusion, to be ready to catch a voice that comes from an unknown source, from somewhere beyond the book, beyond the author, beyond the conventions of writing: from the unsaid, from what the world has not yet said of itself and does not yet have the words to say.

the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there;

No lo dudes, tu gran carácter carece de secretos para mí, incluso cuando no sé descifrar una palabra, comprendo o creo comprender lo que querías decir con los peculiares trazos de tu pluma

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

The sun didn't illuminate me! When you are old, you remain in shadow, even when you have wit.

I speak from my present level of ignorance. The more you know, the more ignorant you become, because ignorance grows exponentially—the more answers you get, the more new questions arise.

hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.

The music of men's lives' isn't as easy to recognize as the average fool thinks

It is said it takes a good storyteller to turn ears into eyes, but luckily life itself sometimes performs that trick on us.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Tko nije nau?io gledati nebo u potoku, ne zna što su ribe na drve?u.

Your taste in books says more about you than any other single object in your house. It reflects your interest, your intelligence, your sophistication, your humour…

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.

Experience assists wisdom because the universe has been designed to make it so.

The purpose of meditation is not so much changing what we see as changing the way we see it.

After a half century of ministry, F. J. Hallett claimed that in the actual work of a parish, the most successful leader is the one who possesses a keen sense of humor combined with a clear sense of God's grace.

I have never met leadership without a sense of humor; this ability to stand outside oneself and one's circumstances, to see things in perspective and laugh. It is a great safety value! You will never lead others far without the joy of the Lord and its concomitant, a sense of humor.3

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men: Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble, that he knows no more.

But we cannot make whatever encompasses us an object without moving out of it. We do not see the eyes we see with. We cannot perceive the place where we are standing unless we leave it.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.