Quotes About Insight

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It's because you know that more is possible that you'll always see the pointlessness in following a stupid rule or clocking in and out of a boring class. Most people can't see that distinction, so they just do as they're told. Of course, this makes them bored and irritated, but they think that's the human condition. You and I are lucky enough to see that it doesn't have to be that way.

I'm a writer," Jane says. "I have a habit, I guess, where I see all the possibilities in a situation. No matter what, there's always at least one that's terrifying.

The weakness of humanity is never willingly perceived by young minds.

Would it surprise you to learn that the rabbis thought that study, and not prayer, was the highest form of worship? They pointed out that when we pray, we speak to God, but that when we study the Scriptures, God speaks to us.

People are afraid of anything they don't understand. When they understand, when they know the truth, they can do something about it.

You can never know enough about your characters." —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Literature is an act which gives meaning to experience.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

Children are the only people who can see adults from inside their lives, permitted to observe every small thing, as if their forming minds are incapable of judging what they see, or as if it does not lodge there, somewhere, permanently,

Un tempo avevo occhi molto buoni. Quello che hanno visto è un altro discorso. L'esperienza mi ha insegnato che si può guardar succedere qualcosa senza nemmeno vederlo.

What chutzpah, to write my life story at forty! Or a bad omen. Perhaps, having written it down, I now feel the life is done. Dora would have made me snap out of it. There are some people just the thought of whom makes us behave better. [Toller]

Mais tu n'es pas aussi abruti qu'on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l'es?

Mais tu n'es pas aussi abruti qu'on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l'es?

After all, nobody else ever made a sketch of the dishes in your sink. That you probably can't think of a similar image is also helpful.

You get so close to, and so wound up in, what you are trying to do that you can lose perspective. Your mind may trick you into seeing what you want to see, not what is really there.

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

Perhaps somewhere in the universe there was a touchstone that she had never found, perhaps there was a clue that would make everything simple and clear--if only she knew where to look....

Is knowledge the pearl of price? That, too, may be purchased -- by steady application, and long solitary hours of study and reflection. Bestow these, and you shall be wise.

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.