Quotes About Insight

All of us are near-sighted, except on the inside. Only our dreaming sees with clear vision.

Sabio es quien monotoniza la existencia, puesto que entonces cada pequeño incidente tiene un privilegio de maravilla. El cazador de leones no tiene aventuras más allá del tercer león. Para mi cocinero monótono, una escena de bofetadas en la calle tiene siempre algo de apocalipsis modesto. Quien no ha salido nunca de Lisboa viaja al infinito en el tranvía cuando va a Bemfica77 y, si un día va a Cintra,78 siente que ha ido a Marte.

I've already seen everything I've never seen. I've already seen everything I haven't yet seen.

I, who have eyes that are only for seeing, See an absence of meaning in all things.

soy del tamaño de lo que veo y no del tamaño de mi estatura»

Saber interponerse constantemente entre uno mismo y las cosas es el grado más alto de sabiduría y prudencia.

If only one had not learned from birth onwards, to give certain accepted meanings to everything, but instead was able to see the meaning inherent in each thing rather than that imposed on it from without.

The repression of love sheds much more light on its nature than does the actual experience of it. Virginity can be a key to profound understanding.

What matters is to know how to see, ... To know how to see when seeing

Those of us who are curious about life, let us peer out of every door and window, in the weary foreknowledge that we will see nothing new or beautiful.

Singurul avantaj când studiezi e s? te bucuri de ceea ce alÈ›ii nu au spus.

Depending on how you look at it, anything can be both astonishing and an obstacle, everything and nothing, a way forward or a cause for concern. Looking at something differently each time means renewing it and multiplying it.

En la vida hay que cometer inevitablemente todos los errores en primera persona, pero la literatura nos permite embellecerlos con aciertos ajenos...

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

A grain of knowledge with the dawning of the day is a breakfast of the mind.

You may have come on no bicycle, he said, but that does not say that you know everything.

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.