Quotes About Insight

Reason, you'll always be half-blind.

Love: Ah, Reason, says Love, you will always see with one eye only, you and all those who are nurtured by your doctrine. For the man is indeed one-eyed who sees the things which are before his eyes yet does not know what they are; and this is the case with you.

Mucho me costaría vivir en un mundo sin libros pero la realidad no está en ellos, puesto que no cabe entera.

Books are not life, only its ashes.

une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse (La conversation à Innsbruck)

Like everyone else I have at my disposal only three means of evaluating human existence: the study of self, which is the most difficult and most dangerous method, but also the most fruitful; the observation of our fellowmen, who usually arrange to hide secrets where none exist; and books, with the particular errors of perspective to which they inevitably give rise.

Bardzo ?le czu?bym si? w ?wiecie bez ksi??ek, ale rzeczywisto?ci w ksi??kach nie ma, bo si? w nich w ca?o?ci nie mie?ci.

Lo miraba vivir. Mi opinión sobre él se modificaba de continuo, cosa que sólo sucede con aquellos seres que nos tocan de cerca; a los demás nos contentamos con juzgarlos en general y de una vez por todas.

L'ipocrisia degli uomini? Non esageriamola. La maggior parte pensa troppo poco per pensare doppio.

Tener razón demasiado pronto es lo mismo que equivocarse.

Il racconto è scritto in prima persona e messo in bocca al personaggio principale, procedimento per il quale io ho una certa predilezione perché elimina dal libro il punto di vista dell'autore, o almeno i suoi commenti, e perché permette di mostrare un essere umano che fronteggia la sua stessa vita e si sforza più o meno onestamente di spiegarla e innanzitutto di ricordarsela.

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good, that they Haven't Helped, but only the passage of time will reveal just how bad they are.

one thing I've learnt is never to underestimate the confidence of the most unremarkable of men.

we do not admire what we cannot understand.

when we think we have things already figured out, we're not teachable. Genuine insight can't dawn on a mind that's not open to receive it.

When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, 'Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

We heal through noticing, and prayer.

I didn't know that a miracle is just a shift in perception

Quisiera no saber ahora lo que no sabía entonces.

Ver con sus ojos es expiar los errores de nuestra percepción. Ese es el milagro que él opera en nuestra vida

Yo jamás había caído en la cuenta de que confiar en Dios significaba confiar en el amor. Había oído decir que Dios era amor, pero jamás había comprendido qué quería decir eso exactamente.