Quotes About Insight

Try to be one of the people," said Henry James, "on whom nothing is lost." As a writer I considered myself observant, but how much was lost on me! Birds may be everywhere, but they also—lucky for them—inhabit an alternate universe, invisible to most of us until we learn to look in a new way. And even after I had been shown them, aspects kept eluding me.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

When you hide your face from the world, you can't see the world.

She always saw through him, as if he were just another window. She always felt that she knew everything about him that could be known. Not that he was simple, but that he was knowable, like a list of errands, like an encyclopedia.

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slightly away from it. The most light-sensitive parts of our eyes (those we need to see dim objects) are on the edges of the region we normally use for focusing. Eating animals has an invisible quality. Thinking about dogs, and their relationship to the animals we eat, is one way of looking askance and making something invisible visible.

The more I found, the less I understood.

In its eyes I was sure I saw some form of understanding, but I didn't see forgiveness.

Era un genio della tristezza, e in essa si tuffava distinguendone i molti fili, apprezzandone le sfumature più sottili. Era un prisma attraverso cui la tristezza poteva suddividersi enl suo infinito sprettro. Brod, inventrice delle 613 Tristezze

Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

As learnèd commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Quand un vrai génie apparaît en ce bas monde, on peut le reconnaitre à ce signe que les imbéciles sont tous ligués contre lui.

Phantasie ist die Gabe, unsichtbare Dinge zu sehen.

La mayoría de las personas son como alfileres: sus cabezas no son lo más importante

Jonathan Swift

La sabiduría es como una gallina, que debemos sabe, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo

La sabiduría es como una gallina, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo.

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