Quotes About Insight

But until now I did not understand; everything was in a sort of mist. And I believe it all arose from believing that the brain is in the head. It's not so at all; it comes with the wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea.

Wise is he who disdains no character, but, fixing a searching eye on him, explores him down to the first causes… Blessed is the man who has chosen the most noble passion from among them all.

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

Nuestra generación lo ve todo claramente, le asombran los errores, le produce risa la insensatez de sus antepasados, sin ver que esos anales están escritos con fuego celestial, que en ellos clama cada letra, que un dedo imperioso le señala por doquier a ella, a la generación actual. Pero nuestra generación se ríe y, dominada por la presunción y el orgullo, comienza una serie de nuevos errores, de los que más tarde también se reirán nuestros descendientes.

You have to read many books to realize how little you know.

As?l her ?eyden azar azar anlayan ak?ldanelerden korkmal? insan. Herkes kendi i?ini yaps?n, yeter. Benim gözümde bilmedi?ini aç?kça söyleyen insan, bilmedi?ini biliyormu? gibi görünen ve her ?eyi a?z?na yüzüne bula?t?ran ikiyüzlüden daha de?erlidir.

Dar în?elept este cel c?ruia nu-i repugn? nici un caracter ?i, ?intuindu-l cu privirea scrut?toare, ajunge s?-l cunoasc? pân? la origine.

By watching him, one could verify the truthfulness of Francis Bacon's statement about people who, thanks to their inclination toward philosophy, became veritable owls who could only see in the darkness of their own conclusion and remained blind in the light of reality, particularly when it came to seeing the obvious.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.

A cat is an ordinary pet in the sight of those who don't know what it takes.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose. Soon afterward, when I learned of her disappearance, I wasn't the least surprised. I understood. I had disappeared once, too.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

as if not seeing something spared you from its sorrow.

The best listeners listen between the lines.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid travelling the world, the first of the backpackers. It was only afterwards, really, that he had made any sense of what he had seen. Alex wondered what, in the fullness of time, he himself would make sense of, what small, crucial detail might be lodging itself in his brain that would shake his life to its foundations.

Don't try to understand! It's enough if you do not misunderstand.

experienced," Rob J. said.

Follow the words, not the person.

She doesn't like looking straight at things. She's a peripheral person.