Quotes About Insight

Lo peor que tiene la tristeza es que es ciega; y lo peor que tiene la cólera es que ve demasiado.

Lo peor de la tristeza es que ciega y lo peor de la cólera es que ve demasiado.

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

you see everything as though your eyes are going to lapse into tears.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties -- that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sight, nor with the mind's eye's visions, nor with madness.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Samson opened my eyes to things that could not be seen with human eyes. Adonai may be invisible, but as Samson said, so is love, and nothing is more powerful.

Philip said that the older he got the more he realised that everyone in Dickens, without exception, was a real person, and quite a lot of them were among his friends.

When we are young we all look through our elders, to see what lies beyond. And when we see what is there, we are the elders ourselves.

Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

A man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

The need to do something tends to trump the need to understand what needs to be done.

Everything is a learning experience.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

poetry is a way of seeing and that a poet is not so much a person skilled with words as a person who recognizes the poetry that exists all the time all around us.

Those who sit furthest from the center of power, see it the clearest.

Is experience worth one year, multiplied by ten years, good?' He meant that if we could do the same thing repeatedly, for a long period of time, we don't necessarily become wiser at it or in general.

The women he had chosen, and who had, in one way or another, decided against him, had been more far-sighted than himself, and had discerned in his unremarkable courtship the prospect of a lifetime of boredom, though he had thought to provide them with everything that they desired. But they had desired an excitement which he could not provide. Now he recognized that they had been right to do so.

And the curious thing was that Dr Weiss had never met anyone, man or woman, friend or colleague, who could stand literature when not on the page.

There must be some compensation for being an onlooker,' said Beatrice. 'The role is not always an enviable one.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.