Quotes About Insight

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Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science, poetry or describing a journey, accuracy is all you can do. Saying it as you saw.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

Therefore, it is my belief that Blind Benny, even with his poor sightless eyes, is the only person I know who can see with perfect clarity. Because Benny is able to see beyond appearances.

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

While the world may be large, complex, and hard, and unfair; it is also knowable. It can be understood. Once understood, it can be directed, controlled, and improved.

Science teachers give their students the keys to unlocking the secrets of the world around them.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more lives and as many kind of lives as we wish.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Truth is a ladder of many rungs, and that from each we gain a new perspective??

I sat silent before the book, and the book unsealed its lips and revealed to me things I had never heard before. When I was tired of studying I thought many thoughts, and this is one of them: Many generations ago a wise man wrote a book and he did not know of this man who sits here, but in the end all his words prove to be meant for him.

Não olheis de onde vem a verdade.

La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza.

Literature is a symptom of the state of a society

Writers are not prophets. We see one thing, one problem in different conditions and from different angles, and whatever we understand we present to the world, and we never force it to accept it.

Dün ak?amdan beri ne Hamdi, ne de ben hakikatte de?i?mi? de?ildik; neysek gene oyduk; buna ra?men onun bana dair, benim ona dair ö?rendi?imiz baz? ?eyler, küçük ve teferruata ait ?eyler bizi ayr? istikametlere al?p götürmü?lerdi...

Hay?r, öyle de de?il, ben bir kö?eden onlar?n nas?l küçüldüklerini seyrettim; halbuki onlar biraz ?a??rm??lar, ama küçüldüklerini yine fark etmemi?lerdi.

Halbuki en çok okudu?um bir kitab?n en çok okudu?um bir sat?r? bile bana bazan ba?ka ?eyler söyleyebilir.

Halbuki Sarto'nun bu tablosundaki Meryem, dü?ünmeyi ö?renmi?, hayat hakk?ndaki hükümlerini vermi? ve dünyay? istihfaf etmeye ba?lam?? bir kad?nd?. ?ki taraf?nda ibadet eder gibi duran azizlere de?il, kuca??ndaki Mesih'e de?il, hatta gökyüzüne de de?il, topra?a bak?yor ve muhakkak ki bir ?eyler görüyordu.