Quotes About Insight

recognized that he was a genius" (67)

I'd been thirteen, not stupid, though a lot of people confuse the two.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

People who keep journals have life twice.

he who looks too hard for any particular thing, though he may find it, will certainly miss the most wondrous and strange things he passes, though they stare him in the face.

Much of the deep depression that surrounds us in life has to do with this one thing — that we can't even see the smallest plainest objects.

However, out in the world I have come to see that he who looks too hard for any particular thing, though he may find it, will certainly miss the most wondrous and strange things he passes, though they stare him in the face.

read widely because almost nothing has been everywhere applied.

All a person needs to do is observe what the market is telling him and evaluate it.

All his knowledge came from within.

better than any person living there, and thought she knew what to

author Agatha Christie was knowledgeable

You can look back now and see how you should have known, but you were focusing on the facts instead of the feeling.

She will rue her lack of curiosity, her ability to see things only as she wanted to, for the rest of her life.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

there is a distinction between understanding and sympathizing.

That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

The capacity to see and—equally so—blindness are not divisible. The critical faculty of the human mind is one: To believe one can be seeing internally but blind as far as the outside world is concerned is like saying that the light of a candle gives light only in one direction and not in all. The light of the candle is reason's capacity for critical, penetrating, uncovering thought.

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees …. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love …. Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Wer das Phänomen des Unbewussten nicht kennt, ist überzeugt, die Wahrheit zu sagen, wenn er das sagt, was er weiß.