Quotes About Insight

when you reach a point where you can distinguish between the things you thought you wanted and the things you actually need, that is an epiphany.

Plotinus had been born in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century A.D. Like many brilliant critics, he thought he understood what he had read better than the author himself.

Parte do talento excepcional de Einstein residia em sua capacidade de refletir sobre os mais complexos problemas e fórmulas e perceber os princípios fundamentais sobre os quais estes se sustentam.

conscientia,

Describe the situation as you see it without exaggerating, making judgments, or explaining how you feel about it.

listening gives you the opportunity to learn.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.

il confine è il luogo migliore per acquisire conoscenza.

David Bowie had grasped a fundamental truth: before you can be a genius, you have to seem like a genius.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

I've never travelled," I told her. "Oh, you absolutely should," she insisted, "if only so that you can come home and really see it for what it is. That's my favourite part.

Are you always this wise, Ruth?" "Only when it comes to other people's lives.

Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual- if one things about it, it's really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn't think things through.

It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it.

The sensitive readers, they have a certain look. You can al. most smell it on them, that they need books to feel okay.

She wouldn't have seen any of the dinginess, because no one ever does until they're on he outside of a place, looking in.

There's no secret, just keep your eyes open. Open all the time, but especially when you think you can't be surprised. That's when you learn to pay attention, to listen to your own voice.