Quotes About Insight

You first learn truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

you draw (the painter)

Sometimes Holly could start to see the order in things, she got a glimmer of a pattern. And that thing everyone seems to say these days, about how things always happen for a reason- Holly was getting close to being willing to concede that that was maybe, possibly true.

When I hear what I have written out loud, the cliches hang in the air between us like bad breath

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

the amateur historian's next stop after Boy, people used to be so stupid is People: still stupid.

Assumptions are often wrong.

Quisiera ver claro en mí antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

Our job as a writer is to represent the world and to bear witness to it.

anubhav?vas?nameva vidy? phalam. The fruit of knowledge, the fruit of vidy? is anubhava.

Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had no mother. She was conceived by the sea foam. He would say such things not because he thought I was ignorant of them but because he judged that I needed at a given moment to have my thoughts directed toward them.

Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.

Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice.

One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow.

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.

Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick.

It means that writers are supposed to make you laugh and cry. That's what mankind is looking for.

Ima u tome neke mudrosti, pomislio je, kao da bi posrtanjem mogao vratiti ravnotežu, ili priznaju?i malo ludila do?i pameti. A uživao je u šalama na svoj ra?un.

Man is a creature who has something to say about everything under the sun.

B]eauty is always an affair of knowledge.

Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.

Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition that you don't know as much as you thought you knew.

There are three important things to know about human beings in order to understand why we do the things we do. Humans use pattern recognition to understand their world. Humans are very bad at pattern recognition. And they don't know it.