Quotes About Insight

Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.

What prophecy actually is is not that you actually know that the bomb will fall in 1942. It's that you know and feel something that somebody knows and feels in a hundred years. And maybe articulate it in a hint—a concrete way that they can pick up on in a hundred years.

First thought, best thought.

No point writing when the spirit doth not lead.

The message is: Widen the area of consciousness.

My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.

Nobody wants to hear about your feelings, darling, tell me what you see!

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

I know too much and not enough.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

One just has to be observant, because when we deal with the every day we usually see, but we fail to notice.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

Is it not amazing, Puggly dear, that whenever we begin to congratulate ourselves on the breadth of our knowledge of the world, we discover that there are multitudes of people, in every corner of the earth, who have seen vastly more than we can ever hope to?

I am a bottomless well of revelation but cannot force the ignorant to drink.

One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once.

El necio ataca -le había dicho-. El sabio sonríe, observa y aprende...y luego ataca.

The best lessons one teaches oneself.