Quotes About Insight

SheAlmighty had tuned each person in a musical key, and Kasper could hear it. Best in the brief, unguarded moments when people were nearby but didn't yet know he was listening. So he waited by the window, as he was doing now.

What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.

The writers see where we're headed before the scientists do. What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

You can learn something about your fellow human beings from what they write in the margin

In a sense, the mentally deranged and feebleminded were my guardian angels, and when I hadn't seen any of them in a long time, the sight of an idiot gave me a sudden burst of health and strength.

Being with Steffens is to me like flashes of clear light; it is as if I see him, and myself, and the world, with new eyes." Steffens

Stupid people often say the smartest things.

Because that's what it turned into: in front of a fine painting a viewer stopped looking and started watching, watching is more specific, watching is a hunt for something, a search, the way we search for a loved one's boat on the horizon, or an elk in the trees. Before a good painting they started watching for clues to their own life.

One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.

But I should have known.

V oby?ejném ?ase, v tom na hodinách, pochopí ?lov?k ur?ité v?ci. Když nechá ?as b?žet, pochopí jiné.

Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.

Interpretation is the fuel that drives understanding. The making of meaning is what

Most of us have one BIG IDEA at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

He had been looking forward to a further insight into the life of this woman he was so deeply in love with and still knew so little about.

Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backwards.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

Love gives you eyes.

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.