Quotes About Insight

Un psicólogo puede ser más peligroso que el mismísimo diablo, lo supe desde que leí a Freud.

Si algo he aprendido en el Congo, es que no hay peor fiera sanguinaria que el ser humano

Ik zei dat ze gekwetst was omdat ik had ontdekt dat ze ondanks al haar terughoudendheid, grofheden en beledigingen wel degelijk iets voor me voelde. (...) 'Denk je dat? Dat zul je nog wel merken dat dat niet zo is, knulletje.

Son chispazos de humor que se agradecen, que revelan que en el interior de ese ser «podrido de literatura» había picardía, malicia, vida.

Estoy perfectamente entrenado para eso, niña mala. En cuestión de cuernos y abandonos, sé todo lo que hay que saber y todavía más

El genio artístico o literario, no es en ningún caso garantía de lucidez política.

Aprender a leer es lo más importante que me ha pasado en la vida

Un libro se convierte en parte de la vida de una persona por una suma de razones que tienen que ver simultáneamente con el libro y con la persona.

If you're in a country and you want to learn about it, it's a good idea to go and found out what they have to say for themselves; you might want to write a good story about it, when they're not looking.

Reading ancient myths and fairy tales can be very helpful because these stories came spontaneously from people who had not studied psychology. The stories came straight out of their unconscious and, therefore, show us how the unconscious works unimpeded by conscious intervention. The images are clear and stark. For those of us who are interested in why we do what we do when we want to do the opposite, the stories are gold mines of information.

We talked and talked and talked. Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears, at least in my experience. As we talked, lights flicked on inside my head; by the end of the night I was a planterium.

I don't think love is blind, true love is probably the most clear-eyed state of being there is.' 'Maybe you're right. Maybe with true love, you see and you love anyway…

We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things

I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are

even though adults were tall, what we knew about anything, including ourselves, was small.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

He was afraid a lot, but it had become a discerning fear.

Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight. The

Criminals saw the man, not the badge, and they liked him, sometimes enough to tell him surprising and damaging things.

Many of the things overheard were redolent of deeper knowledge.

The United States should interact with other nations realistically, first, not on the basis of domestic political priorities. Very often the problems in distant lands have little or nothing to do with America's ideological preoccupations. Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight.

Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight

ISO, FIRST TO GO! LAST TO KNOW!

objective physical science methodology will never permit us to know a man; that such methodology limits us merely to knowing about a man.