Quotes About Insight

No sabía que no es más que un cambio en la manera de percibir.

what shakes us to our core is what shakes us awake.

Dios amado, estoy dispuesta (o dispuesto) a ver esto de otra manera».

Por grandes y profundos que sean los conocimientos de un hombre, el día menos pensado encuentra en el libro que menos valga a sus ojos, alguna frase que le enseña algo que ignora

No sé en qué consiste que soy naturalmente curioso; es un deseo de saberlo todo que nació conmigo, que siento bullir en todas mis venas, y que me obliga más de cuatro veces al día a meterme en rincones excusados por escuchar caprichos ajenos, que luego me proporcionan materia de diversión para aquellos ratos que paso en mi cuarto y a veces en mi cama sin dormir; en ellos recapacito lo que he oído, y río como un loco de los locos que he escuchado.

even the most commonplace man knows a great deal more concerning any fellow-man than does even the cleverest, shrewdest woman.

Few authers feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel

Bara människor utan visioner flyr in i verkligheten.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.

I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist.

Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.

Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is.

I know more than I know and must learn it from myself.

Sometimes I feel like we've just been living on hints. Seeing the world through a keyhole. That's how it would seem to us when we looked back.

I believe that the old man did indeed have far too narrow an idea of what a vision might be. He may, so to speak, have been too dazzled by the great light of his experience to realize that an impressive sun shines on us all.

He may, so to speak, have been too dazzled by the great light of his experience to realize that an impressive sun shines on us all.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A

And on that walk he said to me, John, you might as well know now what you're sure to learn sometime. This is a backwater - you must be aware of that already. Leaving here is like waking from a trance.

Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.

Dad always said don't take it personally. Dad told you that because it was what you needed to hear. Dad always told me if a bird flies over you and shits on your shoulder, take it personally.

Algunos hombres, algunas mujeres, tienen una sensibilidad más intensa que otros, sienten y perciben cosas que a los demás nos pasan desapercibidas.