Quotes About Insight

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

as they drifted they had gathered trouble and a great deal of peculiar knowledge about human beings, what human beings would do or say under extreme duress. It was not something you could do anything with but it interested them all the same.

Don't get mad, get smart

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.

No, Tully, he doesn't get it because he doesn't love me. When you don't love somebody you never get how they feel. You don't even look for it.

Cuando se vive mucho tiempo, se aprenden muchas cosas

The wise are wise only because they love.

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

All this woe, from beasts I've learned Polity, the same discerned Heeding what the birds had taught,

Deje que lo revuelva todo, que solo el que lo revuelve todo saca algo en claro.

She was secretly amused by the man who managed to give the impression of moving in all directions while standing still.

Not that he was any expert on the subject, but Matt believed he could tell a lot about a woman by observing the way she watched a sunset.

To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.