Quotes About Insight

Silläkin riskillä että kuulostan paistilta, kuningatar sanoi, kirjat tekevät ihmisestä kypsemmän.

A few years ago she never would have noticed what Norman was doing. Or anyone else either. And if she took note of it now it was because she knew more of people's feelings than she used it. And could put herself in someone else's place.

You don't put your life into your books. You find it there.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Books are not about passing the time.They're about other lives.

Solo quello che vedi con la coda dell'occhio ti tocca nel profondo. (E.M. Forster)

16 December. In his book The Poetics of Space (1958) the critic and philosopher Gaston Bachelard quotes the advice of a dictionary of botany: 'Reader, study the periwinkle in detail, and you will see how detail increases an object's stature.' 'To use a magnifying glass', Bachelard comments a little later, 'is to pay attention.' (From The Man with a Blue Scarf by Martin Gayford.)

Ogni conoscenza è preziosa, che abbia o no la minima utilità per l'uomo.

La storia è il commento alle varie e continue incapacità degli uomini.

Rachel was becoming adept at sensing when something was going unsaid by adults: it was as if there were an invisible object sitting amid their visible words and Rachel was learning to judge its shape and size by feel alone.

She listened to a life's story that was, she discovered, richer than it was sad.

newspaper ads for lost pets and earthquakes that soon follow. Other studies indicate a higher rate of last-minute cancellations for airplane flights that crash. While we may be tempted to look outside ourselves for advice, we are all quite brilliant and know a lot more about our path and destiny than we recognize.

Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace.

Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.

Therefore the wise are guided by what they feel and not by what they see, Letting go of that and choosing this. —12

Time reveals character.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us

Without going outside, you may know the whole world. Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the wise know without traveling; See without looking; Work without doing.

The answer is simpler than you think.

Every journey you take leads you back to yourself.

Women always figure out the truth.

He who understands all but lacks Self Knowledge lacks all.

The more sober you get, the more clearly you feel

But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.