Quotes About Insight

Siempre se piensa mejor con el estómago lleno, dicen los que tienen estómago.

El sentimiento es la raíz y el sustento de las ideas profundas

En serio. Haceme caso —insiste Federico—. Nunca subestimes la estupidez de la gente.

No, mi amor. Lo que pasa es cuando uno se hace el profundo parece inteligente, pero nada más.

A veces no sé si sos un genio que tiene larguísimas lagunas de pelotudez o un pelotudo que tiene mínimos chispazos de genio.

The romantic view, while not the whole of truth, is a necessary part of the whole truth.

I thought I was wrong once," Seldom said, "but I found out later I was mistaken.

I thought I was wrong once, but I found out later that I was mistaken. (Seldom Seen Smith)

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.

Every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

You don't see anything, do you? You see everything but the goddamn mind; you see all the little specs and crap, but you don't see what goes on, do you?

The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown.

In everything you do, refine your skills and knowledge about fundamental concepts and simple cases. Once is never enough. As you revisit fundamentals, you will find new insights. It may appear that returning to basics is a step backward and requires additional time and effort; however, by building on firm foundations you will soon see your true abilities soar higher and faster.

The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown. The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that. Today

Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you hear but you do not listen. For a literary man, Watson - and note that I do not comment on the merit of your latest account of my little problems - for a man with the pretenses of being a writer, you are singularly unobservant. Honestly, sometimes I am close to despair.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Alas! there is no fool like him who wishes for knowledge! It is only through woe that we are taught to reflect, and we gather the honey of worldly wisdom, not from flowers, but thorns.

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.

Après quatre mois d'emprisonnement, j'en sais plus sur la justice qu'après deux années d'université.