Quotes About Insight

Am descoperit ca, de fapt, cuvintele si povestile iti pun la dispozitie un soi de harti, moduri de a-ti gasi drumul inapoi catre tine insuti.

Porque, Nora, a veces la única manera de aprender es vivir.

You possess a young face and a wise tongue. People hate that. They know it could fool them.

Nu conteaza ce cisteati, ci cum citesti. Povestitorul poate incepe o poveste, dar are nevoie de un cititor pentru ca ea sa prinda viata, iar asta nu se va intampla niciodata la fel.[...] Tot ce poate face scriitorul e sa ofere fitilul, de preferat uscat. Cititorul trebuie sa aprinda flacara.

Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.

So, tou see? 'Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live'.

To be a human is to state the obvious

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective. (…) It's not what you look at; it's what you see.

if books had to replicate our exact experience of the world to be useful, the only books worth reading would be written by ourselves.

Humans don't learn from history

how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

Chaque livre écrit est le produit d'un esprit humain dans une disposition particulière. Additionnez tous les livres, et vous obtenez la somme totale de l'humanité. Chaque fois que je lisais un bon livre, j'avais l'impression de lire une sorte de carte au trésor, et le trésor vers lequel elle me menait était en fait moi-même.

sometimes the only way to learn is to live.' 'Sounds hard.

To learn is to live

I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realize it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

O imposibilitate este o posibilitate pe care inca nu ai inteles-o.

not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."' 'What's that? A quote?' I ask. 'Fitzgerald.

Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices .

People only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Fill-o . . . fill-o-wosso-fee . . .' 'Philosophy?

Gerçek bilgelik hiçbir ÅŸey bilmediÄŸini bilmekte yatar. -Sokrates

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see