Quotes About Insight

for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. Besides,

Per vaim rectam,

Là où la vie emmure, l'intelligence perce une issue.

Não advertia que aquele detalhe verdadeiro tinha ângulos que só podiam encaixar-se nos detalhes contíguos do fato verdadeiro de que imprudentemente o destacara e que, quaisquer que fossem os detalhes inventados entre os quais o colocasse, sempre revelariam, pela matéria excedente e os vazios não preenchidos, que não era ali o seu lugar.

Benim nazar?mda bir hiç oldu?unu zannetti?im ?ey, demek ki asl?nda bütün hayat?m, her ?eyimdi. ?nsan kendini ne kadar az tan?yor!

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and that we come to find out about our own can be no more than what other people have shewn us.

It is plain that the object of my quest, the truth, lies not in the cup but in myself.

For mental uncertainty is even more of an obstacle to clear visual perception than a physical defect of the eye would be.

A real human being, however profoundly we sympathize with him, is in large part perceived by our senses, that is to say, remains opaque to us, presents a dead weight which our sensibility cannot lift.

Na realidade, todo leitor é, quando lê, o leitor de si mesmo. A obra não passa de uma especie de instrumento óptico oferecido ao leitor a fim de lhe ser possível discernir o que, sem ela, não teria certamente visto em si mesmo. O reconhecimento, por seu foro íntimo, do que diz o livro, é a prova da verdade deste [...].

Enquanto a leitura for para nós a iniciadora cujas chaves mágicas abrem no fundo de nós mesmos a porta de moradas em que não conseguiríamos penetrar, seu papel em nossa vida será salutar

A necessidade de falar impede não só de escutar mas também de ver, e nesse caso a ausência de qualquer descrição do meio exterior é já uma descrição de um estado interno.

we do not know what a thing is until we have approached it with our intelligence.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

Unfortunately, if the eyes are sometimes the organ through which our intelligence is revealed, the nose (to leave out of account the intimate solidarity and the unsuspected repercussion of one feature upon the rest), the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Ah! there is a man who justifies the wit who insisted that one ought never to know an author except through his books.

traveling allows you to discover things that remain hidden during the normal routine of daily life.

Ciertos días yo amanecía llena de palabras

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Apenas aqueles que passaram longos anos buscando a verdade, imersos na escuridão da ignorância, podem compreender o júbilo transcendente da descoberta.

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

and [thanks] to Ludmila Parks for explaining to me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have read the Brothers Karamazov and those who have not.

I'd seen all the ingredients; I'd just refused to see what they made. So