Quotes About Insight

If you just watch and listen you'll get better answers.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

Since no one individual can mandate a perfectly accurate description of reality, you must draw from many other people's perceptions to imbue your reality with the deepest possible understanding of its many hues and shades.

The hard things people need to say and hear are those things that can do the most to help them see the reality of a situation, a reality that can make all the difference between success and failure. That's the prize. It's not about the hard things hurting you; it's about the hard things helping you see a reality that will move you to a better place to get the results you want. Now

A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.

And for me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

great poetry reaches down into the depths of our humanity and captures the very essence of our experience.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realization and then a little realization built on that.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

I am not an advocate of Enlightenment. On the contrary, I see it as a form of light pollution, which prevents us from seeing the stars.

There are plenty of artists who are awoken by criticism to the meaning of their own works: such, for example, was T. S. Eliot's response to Helen Gardner's book about his poetry—namely, at last I know what it means.

Philosophy is the art of second glances

Time, too, is a function of Shadow, and even Dworkin did not know all of its ins and outs. Or perhaps he did. Maybe that is what drove him mad.

It would be an act of wisdom to depart immediately… but wisdom is itself the product of knowledge; and knowledge, unfortunately, is generally the product of foolish doings. So, to add to my own knowledge and to enhance my wisdom I shall remain another day, to see what occurs.

What should I do?' Coyote yelled. 'Cultivate philosophy and run like hell,' said Bear...

To speak is to name names, but to speak is not important. A thing happens once that has never happened before. Seeing it, a man looks upon reality. He cannot tell others what he has seen. Others wish to know, however, so they question him saying, 'What is it like, this thing you have seen?' So he tries to tell them.

I can see through Shadow, Corwin.

This is because one can never be sure whether wisdom produces or merely locates, and the Prince is wise.

For a moment, I felt that I saw something of pity and a strong love reflected there-and perhaps a touch of humor.

There were obviously missing pieces to the puzzle, but I felt as if they were minor, as if the smallest bit of new information and the slightest jiggling of the pattern would suddenly cause everything to fall into place, with the emerging picture to be something I should have seen all along.

As you say, he had a way of drawing admissions from people.

I'll bare the basics, bridle the beast Unreason, and wrest from murky mystery the pearl of sweetest sense.

I am not unmindful of your thought processes as you speak. I feel the pain in your side, twin to my own. Yes, I know these things and more.

Had I known at the time how well I wrought, said Yama, I might have numbered its days intentionally. Occasionally, do I regret my genius.