Quotes About Insight

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The main thing is knowing how to see, To know how to see without thinking, To know how to see when you see, And not think when you see Or see when you think.

It may seem strange, but the idea that Maurizio might also hold his own weapons, or even the same ones, did not occur to me. And yet I should have suspected that Nella and the Party could also be turned against me. But that is how we men are made: we see everything from our own point of view and have great difficulty imagining another perspective.

What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

If you can work through the evidence, your faith and your experience will be much stronger in the end – and you won't have to be afraid anymore of what you might see in Scripture in an unguarded moment. I

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

pero si no se ve lo trágico de todo se es un idiota.

Uno no encontrará en sitio alguno nada que no haya llevado consigo. Para comprender que uno es un tonto no es necesario trasladarse a Katmandú.

LA MENTE HUMANA es como la vida: un laberinto que a veces saca de quien se pierde en él cosas que jamás habría imaginado.

He entendido con el corazón encogido que la verdad, cuando aparece, a menudo es solo la puerta a otra verdad más profunda que jamás habíamos sospechado y que a menudo lo explica todo. He cerrado los ojos durante un instante y he respirado hondo. Entonces la he visto. La base del iceberg. Ahí estaba. Potente como la luz de un faro.

No hay amaneceres violetas sin ojos que los reflejen, ni largos caminos sin pies que los recorran

The truth was much more beautiful.

Only once did she say: "I love the way you think without thinking

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

it is not enough that we know how things really stand; in a certain sense, things themselves have to realize how they stand.

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.