Quotes About Insight

Si Evie había aprendido alguna verdad a lo largo de su corta vida, era que el perdón era más sencillo de buscar que el permiso. Aunque tampoco tenía intención de pedir ninguna de las dos cosas.

You have no idea how much you can come to know about a person when you see inside their dreams

Every time you observe you give yourself the opportunity to learn.

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I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

All this time, he'd been thinking in two dimensions…forgetting that there was also a Z axis to be considered.

No matter how many orgasms you have, if you have any common sense to begin with, it always comes back.

People who knew shit were invaluable in every organization, no matter how large, or how small.

An experience opens many windows," an Anglo-Saxon writer once said.

In the course of my fifty-six years I have had dealings with thousands of men of all sorts and conditions. I no longer have any curiosity about people.

The trouble was that he happened to possess a very special faculty—a faculty for telling a person's character simply by smelling of him. He could smell out the innermost souls of people.

It is nevertheless my considered opinion that an experience often changes in physiognomy according to the capacity a person has for experiencing.

Fewer people are capable of experiencing things than is commonly supposed.

John Jay Chapman said of Emerson that, great as he was, a visitor from Mars would learn less about life on earth from him than from Italian opera, for the opera at least suggested that there were two sexes.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

Discernment could be likened to distinguishing a light in the distance.

And part of brilliance isn't just solving a problem; it's seeing a problem no one else realizes is a problem yet.

YOU SPEND ENOUGH time chasing a dog to get back a precious black boot, you start to think like a dog. Spend the rest of your time chasing criminals, and you learn to think like a criminal.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.