Quotes About Insight

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

In short, the persons we see most clearly are not necessarily those we know best.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery,' he wrote.

I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery" ~ Carl Gustave Jung

The real therapy only begins when the patient sees that it is no longer father and mother who are standing in his way, but himself . .

That solitude promotes insight as well as change has been recognized by great religious leaders, who have usually retreated from the world before returning to it to share what has been revealed to them. Although accounts vary

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in the universe through what he creates. He finds this a valuable integrating process which, like meditation or prayer, has little to do with other people, but which has its own separate validity. His most significant moments are those in which he attains some new insight, or makes some new discovery; and these moments are chiefly, if not invariably, those in which he is alone.

In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

In general, if you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don't understand it yet.

Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.

Parfois monter un escalier est la seule façon de savoir où il mène.

Leemos porque, aunque leer no sea indispensable para vivir, la vida es más agradable, más clara, más rica para aquellos que leen que para aquellos que no lo hacen. En un sentido más simple todavía: vivir es más fácil para aquellos que saben leer, no solamente las noticias, las instrucciones de uso, las ordenanzas, los periódicos y las papeletas de voto, sino también los textos literarios.

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

and so I opened my eyes and I opened my mind and I saw something I never would have noticed on a bicycle unless I was going very, very fast down a very long hill. Because of the speed of the bus and how I was exerting no effort, the telephone wires on the side of the road, sagging between poles, went up and down with the same rhythm as my heartbeat.

There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions.