Quotes About Insight

when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him. The harder the question, the harder we hunt. The harder we hunt, the more we learn. An impossible question

No hay ninguna buena historia que no contenga nada de verdad [...]. Supongo que aquí hay tanta verdad como en cualquier otro sitio. Es una lástima, al mundo le vendría bien un poco menos de verdad y un poco más de...? No terminé la frase, porque no sabía de qué quería más.

A secret, Teccam explains, is true knowledge actively concealed.

Fear tends to come from ignorance.

each of us has two minds: a waking mind and a sleeping mind. Our waking mind is what thinks and talks and reasons. But the sleeping mind is more powerful. It sees deeply to the heart of things.

I see the problem," I said slowly. "I don't seem to have any behavioral filters.

Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

El poder de su visión era tal que podía leer los corazones de los hombres como si fueran libros de gruesas letras.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. So

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

What makes this a good place?" He looked out over the water for a long time before he answered. "It is an edge," he said at last. "It is a high place with a chance of falling. Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear.

think things are usually bad one way or another," he said. "It might be that only us older folk can see it.

Las preguntas que no podemos contestar son las que más nos enseñan.

Goodness boy, you're like a clear pool. I can see ten feet through you, and you're barely three feet deep.

leader is not a muscle. A leader is a mind.

A secret, Teccam explains, is true knowledge actively concealed. Philosophers

I think things are usually bad one way or another," he said. "It might be that only us older folk can see it.

Discovery . . . favours the prepared mind. And there are no better prepared minds in medicine than good nurses.

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.

Perfectly stay in the natural flow, There is no other concentration. Perfectly realize the natural state, There is no other wisdom.

Know how to recognize a meaningful experience when we see it.

Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.