Quotes About Insight

El príncipe decía lo que pensaba y se sorprendía cuando tú no lo hacías. Algunas personas habrían tomado esta actitud como una muestra de simplicidad, pero ¿no es una muestra de genialidad buscar un atajo al corazón?

I would know it in dark, or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.

It's a funny old world. Once you realize that, you're halfway there.

She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired.

I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart. I think I was then imagining that the net effect of becoming one of those people would be one of accretion. Whereas if you truly become someone on whom nothing is lost, then loss will not be lost upon you, either.

We have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it.

When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.

Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. A red part

or stays up all night watching colored shadows drift across the walls? At times I have done all of these things, but not in service of science, nor of philosophy, not even of poetry.

I mean', he says, 'that I don´t think you have any idea what it is like to be married to someone like you.' 'Like me?' 'Someone who knows everything about you, before you even know it yourself. Someone who can just loo at you and divine your deepest secrets, just with a glance. Someone who can tell what you are about to say- and what you might not- before you say it. It is' he says, 'both a joy and a curse.

Professor Adam Galinsky, an American social psychologist who has studied the connection between creativity and international travel, says that 'Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought, the ability to make deep connections between disparate forms.'1

that experience of getting it wrong that makes me know what's right.

Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies.

The philosopher with his two eyes sees double, so is unable to see the unity of the Truth. ? ???? ???? ?? ?? ????**?? ??? ????? ??? ??? ????

This is self-evident.

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

The female intelligence, well directed, can perfectly encompass the beauties and secrets of science. It

El hombre sólo vale por lo que sabe.

the eye should not see until the heart has conceived

A mirror has no heart but plenty of ideas.