Quotes About Insight

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

Clothe yourself with wisdom like a robe, put knowledge upon you like a crown, and be seated upon the throne of perception.'90

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Who would be a goody that could be a genius?

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Reading fiction—excerpts from National Book Award finalists, winners of the Pen/O. Henry Prize for short stories, or even Amazon bestsellers—has been shown to enhance theory of mind:

The two skills of the warrior are compassion and insight. Compassion is easy - it arises spontaneously from an open heart. Insight or discernment requires more skill. We have to choose our battles.

As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road.

Hai sempre avuto questa capacità d'infilarti sotto la pelle degli altri…

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.

it would seem that whoever did write this book knows you very well. You appear in it, sir. As...as the hero.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.

I had know it and never known it.

Most spiritual paths ultimately lead people to the understanding of their own connection to the divine.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.