Quotes About Insight

Inima î?i avea ra?iunile ei, ?i ra?iunea le cuno?tea.

Rice assumed her duty was to translate Bush's instincts and intuition into policy. Instincts and intuition are a poor substitute for reasoned analysis. [...] "He was feeling his way," said Cheney.

Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

She had learned not to expect love, and wasn't even sure she wanted it. This was the most profound wisdom she'd managed to glean from the fifteen years she had spent in her mother's presence.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Kierkegaard said that, and Naomi had always admired the eerie perfection of this simple insight.

and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

We can never see our own faces directly, never look straight into our own eyes.

Pourtant, il y a une lucidité qui nous vient parfois dans ces moments-là, quand on se surprend à regarder le monde à travers ses larmes, comme si elles servaient de lentilles pour rendre plus net ce que l'on regarde.

He who ends with the most understanding wins.

Still, there's a lucidity that sometimes comes in that moment when you find yourself looking at the world through your tears, as if those tears served as a lens to clarify what it is you're looking at.

I think he's telling the truth," she said. "Like prison inmates have grapevines that keep them informed about what's happening on the outside, these kids have the same sort of system. It's rather remarkable when you think about it.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

But when you live in beauty and look from beauty, everything points in different ways to your wholeness.

Truth is everywhere, and easily seen. Believing one's eyes Is the difficulty.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

I could not think without writing.

theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an "accident," as in the case of the apple that fell near Newton, but the accident only became a "fact" because Newton asked certain questions.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

What we know through a connection with the Self is divine wisdom.