Quotes About Insight

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind, wir sehen sie so, wie wir sind.

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Mon but n'est pas de penser neuf mais de penser juste.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

The very things that separated me and distinguished me from other people were what mattered; the very things no one else would or could say, these were the things I had to say.

What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I felt he was making my own confession.

Que ta vision soit à chaque instant nouvelle. Le sage est celui qui s'étonne de tout.

Everyone was good at talking about day-to-day events, but no one ever looked at what motivated them.

Mes sens s'étaient usés jusqu'à la transparence, et quand je descendis au matin vers la ville, l'azur du ciel entra en moi.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

Acum am înÅ£eles cum te poÅ£i distra la recepÅ£iile mondene: observînd cît de ridicoli sunt cei din jur.

It very often suffices to add together a quantity of little facts which, taken separately, are very simple and very natural, to arrive at a sum which is monstrous.

J'écoute si bien les oiseaux; je crois que je comprends tout ce qu'ils disent.

Oh, one must go to oneself for advice, or to companions of one's own age. One's elders are no use.

Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie et qu'écrit la raison. Il faut demeurer entre les deux, tout près de la folie quand on rêve, tout près de la raison quand on écrit.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Andrea Camilleri

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It's not as if there's an empty patch that one can see and so one can say, 'There's my ignorance; it's about ten by ten and a dozen feet high and someday someone will fill in the empty patch.

My fiction is not autobiography. I am not an exhibitionist. I do not show myself. I am not asking for forgiveness. I do not want to confess. But I have used everything I know—my life—to show what I believe must be shown so that it can be faced. The imperative at the heart of my writing—what must be done—comes directly from my life. But I do not show my life directly, in full view; nor even look at it while others watch.

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.