Quotes About Insight

He'd never been serious about twelve; he'd just figured to start with that proposition, and fall back to six. His mother, his aunt, and what seemed every other female of his acquaintance had all mobilized to explain to him that he was insane, but Ekaterin had merely smiled.

I've read The Book of the Law. I must be slow. I cannot make heads nor tails of it. Every time I read it, I glean one insight, yet still end up confused. Thanks, Name withheld ………………………… Dear Name withheld, Good! I'd be really worried if you said you understood The Book of the Law. One insight per reading is really a good track record.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

dog knew what the words meant.

you know what I see when I look at you

Like everyone he knew, he could discern the hollowness in people's charm only when it was directed at someone other than himself.

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!

What was education for, if not to acquire contradictions? At least it looked like that to me.

These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.

To know something you had to be able to go inside and feel, then step outside and look, and then do that again: go inside, feel, then outside and look. You had to do it twice. That was knowledge. Two in a row.

Learn that you have a way of knowing each other which somehow slips out and beyond the ways you have of not knowing each other at all.

A short story is photograph. A novel is a film.

she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable.

she realised suddenly that there was something about music that had never been revealed to her before: it was not merely the production of sweet sound; it was, to those who understood it, an emotional and intellectual odyssey.

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

Nobody lives long low-rating an enemy. You've got to give the other fellow credit for having as much savvy as you have, and maybe a little more.

The more one learns the more he understands his ignorance. I am simply an ignorant man, trying to lessen his ignorance.

I think the greatest gift anyone can give to another is the desire to know, to understand. Life is not for simply watching spectator sports, or for taking part in them; it is not for simply living from one working day to the next. Life is for delving, discovering, learning.