Quotes About Insight

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts

Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe after a while, a better reason will pop into your head.

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: "To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

Mo?e wariaci to tacy ludzie, którzy wszystko widz? tak, jak jest, tylko uda?o im si? znale?? sposób ?eby z tym ?y?.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

Every idiot has an opinion. I should know because I am one of them.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

While with an eye made quiet by the powerOf harmony, and the deep power of joy,We see into the life of things.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Our meddlesome intellect misshapen the beauteous form of things.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

Oh, be wise, thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

It costs nothing to learn from other people's experience.

The evidence points, first of all, to the importance of developing visions of the future.

Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.