Quotes About Insight

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

It seemed as if the whole of the world was slowly being stripped of innocence. Or maybe I was seeing a little too clearly.

I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

You don't see things like that. You feel them, as in all important things; they arrive, they come into your dreams.

I clawed through a thick web of the culture's consciousness that I hadn't known existed.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

Aprendi com ele que muitas vezes a contradição é o caminho mais claro para a verdade.

Most of the time, it seemed as if the piece was fully formed in his mind. He was not one for improvising. It was more a question of executing something he saw in a flash.

Nobody sees as we do, Patti

Da lui ho imparato che la contraddizione è spesso la più limpida forma di verità

It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying to say. And then a good reader will have something to say in return.

When you try to learn everything about something, you end up learning something about everything.

Elliston-Jones know

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Like it or not, after Freud, no one had to read Sophocles to know something about Oedipus.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

Knowledge comes slowly, and when it comes, it is often at great personal expense.

Come ha detto qualcuno, le storie capitano solo a chi le sa raccontare. Analogamente, forse, le esperienze si presentano solo a chi è capace di viverle.

For it is his belief that if there is a voice of truth - assuming there is such a thing as truth, and assuming this truth can speak - it comes from the mouth of a woman.