Quotes About Insight

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.

In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

The only true voyage of discovery . . . would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

In reality, every reader when he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader's recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.

Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.

Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux, de voir l'univers avec les yeux d'un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d'eux voit, que chacun d'eux est;

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

An impression is for the writer what an experiment is for the scientist, except that for the scientist the work of the intelligence precedes it, and for the writer it comes afterwards.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes.

We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

With intelligent people, three-quarters of the things they suffer from come from their intelligence.

Discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

Only that issues from ourselves which we ourselves extract from the darkness within ourselves and which is unknown to others.