Quotes About Insight

Of late she'd become impatient with the inexplicit needs of boys and men and their acting so rashly on what they could not fathom and surely could not articulate. - Coal Black Horse Chapter 1

What is love?/One name for it is knowledge.

History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

Any act of pure perception is a feat, and if you don't believe it, try it sometime. But

I had found the truth, I had dug the truth up out of the ash pile, the garbage heap, the kitchen midden, the bone yard, and had sent that little piece of truth to Adam Stanton. I couldn't cut the truth to match his ideas. Well, he'd have to make his ideas match the truth. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. The truth shall make you free.

If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of. I had got hold of the

A man's got to carry something besides a corroded liver with him out of that dark backwood and abysm of time, and it might as well be the little black books.

But the first one had not been successful. It had not been successful because in the midst of the process I tried to discover the truth and not the facts.

A man's got to carry something besides a corroded liver with him out of that dark backwood and abysm of time, and it might as well be the little black books.

Any act of pure perception is a feat, and if you don't believe it, try it sometime.

I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away. I'm looking for the truth. And so it goes away. Puzzling.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

ÄŒlovÄ›k se dívá tam, kam jde a kde je, a v?bec tomu nerozumí. Pak se ale oto?í, podívá se, kde už byl, a za?ne se mu vynoÃ…â"¢ovat jistý vzorec. A pokud ten vzorec promítne do budoucna, m?že pak ob?as na nÄ›co zajímavého pÃ…â"¢ijít.

there's no reason why something should lose its power simply because it turns out to have layers of complexity that were not initially available to us, which we slowly attain.

Picasso has magical eyes. He sees the world so differently than we do, but he is able to make us understand what he sees. That's what a truly great artist does

El yo soñado que dormía no notaba la presencia de Halum, pero el yo soñado que observaba la percibía, y yo, el verdadero soñador, los percibía a los dos, y también percibía que todo lo que estaba viendo me llegaba en una visión.

Everything I know is what I have been taught by the sayings and writings of people who have studied the sayings and writings of people who have—and so on.

Today, wealth is in information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

mentor is someone who has already done what you want to do and is successful at doing it. Don't find an advisor. An advisor is someone who tells you how to do it but may not have personally done it.

Just as inside every problem lies an opportunity, inside every disappointment lies a priceless gem of wisdom.

Anda tidak perlu belajar di sekolah hebat, memiliki pekerjaan hebat, atau membaca buku hebat untuk menerima sejumlah informasi terbaik di dunia. Yang harus Anda lakukan hanyalah melihat dunia di sekeliling Anda dan mendengarkan masukan.

I was talking to someone who needed to be locked up.

The lesson is: If you want to see the future, you need to see it through younger eyes.