Quotes About Insight

Her glance put him on the scales and weighed him, and then she said, 'Less trouble accepting reality, I think.

Exactly what I said: she's still a child in many ways, so she's discovering all the fine and noble causes for the first time, and she still sees each one as a discrete unit: she hasn't seen the connections or contradictions among them; not yet.' She

To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;

In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person's soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.

Reason is always apparent to a discerning eye. But luck? It's invisible, erratic, angelic.

Joan Miró: You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life

you can live many lives by reading books.

some clear, personable spark seemed to fly up through his eyes and I saw the creature he really was—and he, I believe, saw me. For an instant we were wired together and humming, like two engines on the same circuit.

I]t is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;

We do not create meaning out of a text; rather, we seek to find the meaning that is already there.

I believe people can't learn wisdom without suffering.

nineteenth-century French economist Frédéric Bastiat pointed out that just because something is less noticed doesn't mean it's less important than things that are obvious: In the department of economy, an act,

Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no

Woe to the investigator so in love with his new idea that he neglects to test it rigorously against received wisdom; woe also to the investigator so in love with his old conceptions that he refuses to weigh the merits of a new insight.

Spock smiled without smiling—something McCoy had seen him do once or twice before, and damned if

Vivre, connaître la vie, c'est le plus léger, le plus subtil des apprentissages. Rien à voir avec le savoir." L'inconnu sur la terre

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

1. Knowledge by acquaintance.

Knowledge by acquaintance is sometimes called "simple seeing," being directly aware of something.

J.P. Moreland

The important thing to note is that we humans have the power to "see," to be directly aware of, to directly experience a wide range of things, many of which are not subject to sensory awareness with the five senses.

The more you know about something, the more you're able to see when you look at it, the more you can remember about it, and the less tied you will be to following a mindless series of steps in working with what you know.

what was the first lesson that you learned in your life?