Quotes About Insight

Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

many bullies lack the self-awareness and insight to see how their power plays are destructive, not only to themselves but to others around them.

Software developers have epiphanies on vacation, too:

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Excessive information creates its own form of blindness to what is actually going on.

To write is to sell a ticket to escape, not from the truth, but into it.

The story of your life, described, will not describe how you came to think about your life or yourself, nor describe any of what you learned. This is what fiction can do - I think it is even what fiction is for.

Reading teaches me the answers to the problems I haven't had yet, or to problems I didn't even know how to describe. And when I feel less alone with what troubles me, it is easier to find solutions. A book to me is like a friend, a shelter, advice, an argument with someone who cares enough to argue with me for a better answer than the one we both already have. Books aren't just a door to another world-each book is part of a door to the whole world, a door that always has more behind it.

It's much like writing an essay or including autobiographical content in fiction—to succeed, it requires an ability to be coldly impersonal about yourself and your state, so as not to cloud what is there with what you want to see.

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

intellectualized insight alone is not sufficient to result in positive changes.

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, / What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.

A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.