Quotes About Insight

sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

she followed their expert lead and laughed along—they knew the secret of black, that it could not be made blacker, and if neither could it be made lighter, it could still be made funnier.

There is generally one person in every situation you must never underestimate the power of.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. I

making it more than what it is lessens it. Just to see it clear is plenty.

I noticed vaguely that I was getting so's I could see some good in the life around me.

I've thought of everything, know what I mean?

He had made his trip without quite realizing it.

Rany, nawet chinscy komunisci niejednego by sie mogli od siostry nauczyc!

With eyes like he's been to the edge and looked over .

Mõnikord ma unustan, milleks naer on võimeline.

To know some Shakespeare gives you a head start in life.

Before you judge someone, imagine what the world looks like through their eyes.

Common sense is a combination of experience, training, humility, wit, and intelligence.

The only way I could discover how to help someone was by listening. Only when I heard what they were trying to say could I get a sense of what they needed, of the issues they were confronting at that time, of the kind of help that would really help at that specific moment.

Left-Hand or interior events cannot be seen in that fashion. You cannot see love, envy, wonder, compassion, insight, intentionality, spiritual illumination, states of consciousness, value, or meaning running around out there in the empirical world. Interior events are not seen in an exterior or objective manner, they are seen by introspection and interpretation

Of all the definitions of "human" provided over the ages—from the "political animal" to the "symbolic animal"—probably the most accurate is the "role-taking animal," the capacity to see not only what one is oneself seeing but to put oneself in the shoes of an other and see the world as that other is seeing it.

Suffering, then, is the initial movement of the recognition of false boundaries. Correctly understood, it is therefore liberating, for it points beyond boundaries altogether. We suffer, then, not because we are sick, but because intelligent insight is emerging.

Esa especie de paracaidista que contempla el mundo desde fuera está hundido hasta el cuello en contextos y sustratos que determinan el alcance de su visión!

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.