Quotes About Insight

The only fundamental basis for understanding is that one himself becomes what he understands and one understands only in proportion to becoming himself that which he understands.

If a person does not become what he understands, then he does not understand it either.

After my death, no one will find in my papers (this is my consolation) the least information about what has really filled my life, find the inscription in my innermost being which explains everything and what, more often than not, makes what the world would call trifles into, for me, events of immense importance, and which I too consider of no significance once I take away the secret note which explains it.

We live our lives forward and understand them backward.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

Once we overcome our biases about the past, we will realize that the people we see as primitive have a lot to teach us, that looking back can help us to move forward.

Only fools accept the obvious and go no further; use your brain, Jilly.

if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it.

I really know the implications, and you don't. We're not talking about a better breed of catapults or . . . or D&D hit levels.

Is maith an scáthán súil charad!" Juniper replied ruefully. "A friend's eye is a good mirror!

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

Lucy: I don't understand men. Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Sometimes the universe tries very hard to send you a message.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

A book is not completed till it's read.

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

Until you know who you are you can't write.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

our lives teach us who we are

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world.

Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence

From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.