Quotes About Insight

True solitude does not come from being physically alone but from the discovery that a fundamental problem of ours cannot find its solution in us or in others.

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3. La vera educazione deve essere un'educazione alla critica.

Non sono qui perché voi riteniate come vostre le idee che vi do io, ma per insegnarvi un metodo vero per giudicare le cose che io vi dirò.

Guardate, la verità ha un volto semplice: basta che uno apra gli occhi.

These children are so stupid; they think they are the first to discover the world.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

Concluí que os livros nos enlevam, mas nunca o bastante, e que ao mesmo tempo que nos aproximam de uma revelação final podem nos distrair e atrasar nosso progresso.

It was all about eyes, the truth.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that—excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?

having already understood everything that you will understand henceforward and until the end of your days." -Q

Questions lead to further questions, and inquiry breeds insight. Gathering expertise brings both confidence and consolation. E. O. Wilson wrote: "You start by loving a subject. Birds, probability theory, stars, differential equations, storm fronts, sign language, swallowtail butterflies....The subject will be your lodestar and give sanctuary in the shifting mental universe.

The more we soak ourselves in God's Word, the more we will be able to readily lay hold of the wisdom we need for particular circumstances.

he descubierto que mis obsesiones al servicio de mis pasiones advierten a la que seré el resto de mi vida.

Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.

I had never before thought so clearly about all the scenes that took place when I wasn't there to witness them. And then, I had a stranger and less pleasant thought: not only was I not necessary to those scenes, and not necessary to those lives that continued to go on without me, but in fact, I was not necessary at all. I didn't have to exist.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. — Lydia Maria Child

A distância mais curta entre dois pontos pode ser a linha reta, mas é nos caminhos curvos que se encontram as melhores coisas.

Importante papel está reservado aos psiquiatras. Aos profetas, acredito ainda mais nos profetas. Acho que eu seria mais útil se estudasse Medicina, de que vão adiantar no futuro as leis se agora já são o que se sabe. Uma psiquiatra maravilhosa. O chato é que quando leio um livro sobre doenças mentais, descubro em mim os sintomas de quase todas, uma psiquiatra por dentro demais da loucura.

A penny for your thought.