Quotes About Insight

Sometimes," he said, "you've got to watch people a long time to see who they are.

To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth. It's possible, I think, that you have to be hurt to see anything at all.

He did not understand what went on in a Chinese heart, that something like this could happen. The Indians made more sense.

he told a story about the days when he was a reporter himself and how he had gotten so close to story that he finally couldn't write it...When I stared at something long enough, the lines blurred and I could no longer see it for what it was. One thing became another.

You see this circle? The size of this circle represents everything that I know about basketball. But the size of this ball represents everything about the game that has never been discovered.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

Any damn fool can get complicated. It takes genius to attain simplicity.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Grieving expands Insight and Understanding

The problem with deep thinking was it could lead to unpleasant conclusions.

She's nice enough, but she's got the IQ of an artichoke.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

than these people now who want to be directors, who have done nothing but look at movies since they were eight years old, who have never had an experience in their lives. Or experienced any culture beyond movie culture.

There is a difference between seeing the world and being in it, which is one point that alludes most people.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

Wisdom not only comes with suffering: when it comes, it is radically unusable. (Brooks' comment on the Oedipus tragedy)

Not to be taken in is something Père Goriot as a whole teaches: it's about learning to see the world as it is, not as it claims to be.

Here we sense a parallel: Facino's conviction that his power to "see" gold has blinded him sounds very much like the narrator's fear that his preternatural insight into the lives of others, allowing him passage into their very bodies and souls, may be an abuse of his mental faculties—the word "abus" is used in both these instances.

Tener malas experiencias a veces es una ayuda, te aclara lo que deberías hacer. Sé que esto parece demasiado optimista, pero es cierto. Quienes sólo han tenido buenas experiencias no son muy interesantes. Puede que estén contentos y sean felices de alguna manera, pero son superficiales. Ahora te parecerá un contratiempo, algo que te complica la vida, pero... es demasiado sencillo vivir sin complicaciones.