Quotes About Insight

I have never seen the truth," said Damien, "without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy.

because it costs a lot to not be aware.

I am probably porous because it costs a lot to not be aware.

The more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.

We'll get to the truth quicker if we don't worry about logic.

I found I could not read just any book. It had gotten so I could see through books – the little ruses, the hooks, the setup in the beginning, the looming weight of a tragic ending, the way at the last page the author could whisk out the carpet of sorrow and restore a favorite character. I needed the writing to have a certain mineral density. It had to feel naturally meant, but not cynically contrived. I grew to dislike manipulations.

At first she didn't listen to it and then she heard what she was feeling. She said it several times to hear it better.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable...

Ce qui guide encore le mieux, c'est l'odeur de la merde.

Il n'y a pas de vanité intelligente.

A wise man looks the other way.

You need a heart and a certain amount of knowledge to go further than other people.

Pentru ca în creierul unui tâmpit s? se contureze un gând, e nevoie s? i se întâmple multe lucruri ÅŸi tare crunte.

Sonuçta savaÅŸ dediÄŸiniz ÅŸey, anlamad???n?z ne varsa odur

liked the way Jane smiled at her—as if Jane was looking for and seeing the very best in Chloe. Not like teachers, always correcting you, trying to improve you, and not like parents, just waiting for you to do the next wrong thing, so they could shake their heads and let you know how disappointed they were in you. . . .

Sometimes you have to look at what's really bad," he said, "to see what's really good.

poetry requires a different kind of view, one where you look inside.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)