Quotes About Insight

He who knows more is more responsible.

Truth itself is the best prudence.

do with each other?" Claudia smiled a knowing smile.

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

The most wise are those who know how little they know!" They

I am what I am, all the things that have happened to me, all the things I have ever learned, as well as all the things that were born inside me.

Knowledge, after all, could not be unlearned.

Literature is the equivalent of the climate scientist's computer simulations: set up some new starting conditions, run the whole complicated process and see what happens.

To imagine wasn't to escape but to go deeper; to see through to the secret life of the world.

But there's more to this world than meets the eye, isn't there?

Stories are the way you look at the world. . . . stories are your salvation.

What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.

Without the great revelations, epics and philosophies as part of our natural vision, there is nothing to see out there, and eventually little left inside.

Tocqueville did not believe that the old writers were perfect, but he believed that they could best make us aware of our imperfections, which is what counts.

For modern men who live in a world transformed by abstractions and who have themselves been transformed by abstractions, the only way to experience man again is by thinking these abstractions through with the help of thinkers who did not share them and who can lead us to experiences that are difficult or impossible to have without their help.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them going about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

Get it clear in your mind: CIGARETTES DO NOT FILL A VOID. THEY CREATE ONE! These bodies of ours are the most

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

How deceived do you have to be to be blind and naked and not know it? This isn't a subtle thing.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.