Quotes About Insight

It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

All of life is a constant education.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you'll have a wonderful time doing it.

Perhaps the most essential thing for a continuing education is to develop the capacity to know what you see and to understand what it means. Many people seem to go through life without seeing.

There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading.

There is no experience from which you can't learn something.

Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

A man can protect himself with fists or sword but his best weapon is his intellect.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.

Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.

My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.

I had the impression that, although I was absorbing much of that sight, many things, too many, were scattering around me without letting me grasp them.

The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.

the disgusting face of things alone was not enough for writing a novel: without imagination it would seem not a true face but a mask.

A veces no me gustas, Lenù, lo subestimas todo, subestimas a todos, incluso a la gente que con solo verla se hace querer.

En las conversaciones con mis hijas oigo palabras o frases no pronunciadas. Ellas a veces se enojan, me dicen mamá, yo no lo he dicho, lo estás diciendo tú, te lo has inventado. Pero no invento nada, me basta con escuchar, lo no dicho es más elocuente que lo dicho.

What I expect from a good story is that it will tell me today what I can't know from any other source but that story, from its unique way of putting something into words, from the feeling that it implies.

understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.