Quotes About Insight

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid-in which case all comment is superfluous-or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Las mujeres saben siempre cuándo se las mira, aun sin verlas, y cuándo se las ve sin mirarlas.

Quien conozca una, una sola bien, las conoce todas, conoce a la Mujer. Además, ya sabe usted que todo lo que se gana en extensión se pierde en intensidad.

Through women you will see the entire universe.

Respeto ... Respeto ... El respeto excluye el cariño. - Eso creerás tú ... ¡Hombre al fin!

Hay que convertir la reflexión en instinto si se quiere que llegue a ser instintiva la reflexión.

Como sólo está de veras cuerdo el que tiene consciencia de su locura

Empezaba a darse cuenta de que la vida es pródiga en hechos que antes de acontecer parecen inverosímiles y luego, cuando sobrevienen, se percata uno de que no tienen nada de inextricables ni de sorprendentes.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

A fi cum spui, badica, dar cel ce spune multe stie putine.

The insight presumably occurs when a subconscious connection between ideas fits so well that it is forced to pop out into awareness, like a cork held underwater breaking out into the air after it is released.

Activity and reflection should ideally complement and support each other. Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.

Stern endorses Pascal's maxim "To understand is to forgive." In fact, one of the most exciting opportunities in being a writer, he feels, is to take a villain or criminal character and make him human by showing what caused him to be so.

Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.

What is the meaning of life?" turns out to be astonishingly simple. The meaning of life is meaning: whatever it is, wherever it comes from, a unified purpose is what gives meaning to life. The

Creative people are constantly surprised. They don't assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don't assume that anybody else does either. They question the obvious—not out of contrariness but because they see the shortcomings of accepted explanations before the rest of us do. They sense problems before they are generally perceived and are able to define what they are.

In discarding a literal religious explanation, it becomes easy to discredit the hard-won wisdom often bundled up with it.

Each biblical parable, for instance, tries to encode the hard-won experience of many individuals over unknown eons of time.

You can drive a car all your life without knowing how the engine works, because the goal of driving is to get from one place to the next, regardless how it's done. But to live without understanding how we think, why we feel the way we feel, what directs our actions is to miss what is most important in life, which is the experience itself.

After an insight occurs, one must check it out to see if the connections genuinely make sense. The painter steps back from the canvas to see whether the composition works, the poet rereads the verse with a more critical eye, the scientist sits down to do the calculations or run the experiments. Most lovely insights never go any farther, because under the cold light of reason fatal flaws appear. But if everything checks out, the slow and often routine work of elaboration begins

a genuinely creative accomplishment is almost never the result of a sudden insight, a light-bulb flashing on in the dark, but comes after years of hard work.

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was understandable

Tuhat kirjaa luettuaan ihminen alkaa aavistaa masentavan totuuden. Kymmenentuhatta kirjaa tekee hänet surulliseksi