Quotes About Insight

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking...

smart people don't do stupid things for no reason, so one must locate why they are doing something that looks stupid from our point of view but may make sense from their point of view.

Thou wert wise to chisel for me: «Taken from the evil to come».

The truth was this: I did not have the brains.

Che cosa vedi adesso? [...] Luce, solo luce, che trasforma tutto il mondo in giocattolo. Molto bene, faremo gli occhiali così.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

The commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood by magnifying the commonplace.

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

It was though I had been in possession of one of those small shells with Japanese flowers which are sold at street corners. When plunged into a bowl of water, the tightly sealed shell opens and the flat, dry, coiled-up, insignificant shreds of paper contained within float out and unfold their variegated and unsuspected splendour; with Gordon I had found my bowl of water.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.

I seek not to instruct but only to lead, to point out and describe what I see. I claim no other right than that of speaking according to my best lights, principally before myself but in the same manner also before others, as one who has lived in all its seriousness the fate of a philosophical existence.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

No two person, ever read the same book.

You can't be what you can't see.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

Een van de dingen die ik leerde tijdens het schrijven van de roman, en ik heb er veel geleerd, was hoe moeilijk het is om nie te hechten aan de valse schijn van waarheid die een geschreven pagina wekt.