Quotes About Insight

Literature is a house with many mansions.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories.

Insight roams the sea of the unconscious like the Loch Ness monster, a rumor whose wake occasionally becomes visible, but even then it's mystifying and scarcely believed.

in doing the finite [we] may perceive the infinite.

Poetry is a kind of knowing, a way of looking at the ordinary until it becomes special and the exceptional until it becomes commonplace.

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

Dr. Park Dietz

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

There must be more to stories than you think.

but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.

For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.

One of the best ways of avoiding his torments was to be ignorant about something and let him put you straight.

Kita hidup seperti penonton yang datang terlambat ke bioskop: kita harus mengejar ketertinggalan sebaik-baiknya, menebak permulaan dari bentuk peristiwa-peristiwa lanjutannya.

There's a great many things hard to fathom in darkness that set themselves straight in the light of day.

I know,' he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.

So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.

For me, to see is to read. It has always been that way.