Quotes About Insight

infinite intelligence in your subconscious can impart to you wonderful kinds of knowledge of an original nature. It can reveal to you and open the way for perfect expression and true place in your life.

Piensa y planea al margen de los métodos tradicionales. Ten en cuenta que siempre hay una respuesta y una solución para cualquier problema.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

When a depressed person does get out of bed, it's usually not with a sudden insight that life is rich and valuable, but out of some creeping sense of duty or instinct for survival. If collapsing is sometimes vital, so is the brute force of will. To William James we owe the insight that, in the absence of real health, we sometimes must act as if we are healthy. Buoyed by such discipline and habit, we might achieve actual well-being.

Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic

That solitude promotes insight as well as change," Storr continues, "has been recognized by the great religious leaders"—including the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed—"who have usually retreated from the world before returning to it to share what has been revealed to them.

Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

Don't go bigger, go deeper.

Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.

We see the shadows of things, not the things themselves . . . We are forced to imagine what the writer doesn't reveal.

that I—I have not 'heard' . . . What is it?

Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself…

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul." —

All that crap was like living your life with your face pressed up close against a mirror, you couldn't see your own face let alone anything surrounding it.

For it has been revealed to me as a fact, that where the dull-essential nature of our lives is eliminated, such as age, identity, education, employment, place of residence, family ties, daily routine, etc., the thrilling-essential is revealed.

For Iris has learned that to experience a thing is not to know it, or even to have the power to remember it coherently.

The writer understands how deeply mysterious the 'familiar' really is. How strangely opaque, what we've seen a thousand times. And how inconsolable a loss, when the taken-for-granted is finally taken from us.

If Marianne had noticed.

She'd perfected a method of not-seeing which was a kind of reverse social radar.

Es curioso, siempre sabes más de lo que dices. Quiero decir, cualquier persona. Lo que dices siempre es menos de lo que sabes.

The striking thing about self-knowledge is that it may be lacking.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul-- Joyce Carole Oates