Quotes About Insight

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO He was thinking well, a little too well

Don't ever kid yourself with too much dialectics.

You learn in this war if you listen.

That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

it's a big misconception: the wisdom of the old people. They don't become wiser. Just more cautious.

It's not cowardly to know what is foolish. -Neither is foolish to know what is cowardly.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

it is always a mistake to know an author

I misjudged you," Harvey said. "You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

El secreto de la sabiduría, del poder y del conocimiento es la humildad

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking.

Sus ojos podían continuar mirando y mirando cuando todos los demás ojos hubiesen dejado de mirar.

You cannot know about it unless you have it.

Write hard and clear about what hurts

In order to write about life first you must live it." ? Ernest Hemingway

I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be. Still, I was there. I was there as much as anyone else was there.

You are aware of the result, not the process.

a journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

Prior to the studies by Renan and Straus, historians thought myth was an obstacle to be removed in the search for the actual truth of history. But these new writers treated myth as a source of insight into the ways people viewed themselves and their universe. What if instead of treating myth as an illusion and a falsification, we saw it as an expression of people's deepest dreams?

Clarified states of consciousness are contagious.

Wisdom is the warrior's greatest weapon. When you have wisdom, you are never unarmed, you are never defenseless, and you are never powerless. You need skill to know how to shoot an arrow straight, but only wisdom can teach you how to never need to shoot it. Wisdom is not the result of having learned enough; it comes when you know there is never enough learning.

Giova sembrare stolti senza esserlo