Quotes About Insight

I know him well; at least I know the inmost of his heart. Remember, child, a looker-on sees clearly the value of the move the player misses.

We are very apt to think that we men and women understand one another; but most probably you know nothing even of the modes of thought of the man who lives next door to you.

And it was as if all these details were connected, that they were like the separate letters of a word in an unknown language and that, if only she could understand the word, she would understand everything.

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

Genius simplifies things

The truth hidden by projection. Too had he'll never understand what his subconscious is trying to tell him.

The truth hidden by projection. Too bad he'll never understand what his subconscious is trying to tell him.

Le debo a Ezequiel el haberme enseñado que la vida no es más que eso: asomar la cabeza para ver que pasa afuera, aunque haya tormenta.

Un luogo non è mai solo "quel" luogo: quel luogo siamo un po' anche noi. In qualche modo, senza saperlo, ce lo portavamo dentro e un giorno, per caso, ci siamo arrivati.

I've come to realize one thing, that stories are always bigger than we are, they happen to us and we are their protagonists without realizing it, but in the stories we live, we aren't the true protagonists, the true protagonist is the story itself.

Sometimes people did this, closed their eyes for a few seconds and imagined it gave them insights into what it was like to be her. Only, at the end, they could still open their eyes and see.

The bigger problem was that I couldn't see that I had a problem." Bud paused for a moment, and then, leaning toward me, he said in a lower, even more earnest tone, "There is no solution to the problem of lack of commitment, for example, without a solution to the bigger problem — the problem that I can't see that I'm not committed.

The bigger problem was that I couldn't see that I had a problem.

I leaned over, took her hands and brought them together, closing her coat. "You know damn well what I think.

To free a man from error is to give, not take away

There is something of value in trying to put the world into words.

Writing was the solution to every problem.

A real editor isn't just someone you work with; he's your guide. He sees your brain doing its thing and learns its weaknesses and abilities, and if he's really good, he figures out what you need to hear to compensate for the former and accentuate the latter. He is the person you trust with the most intimate thing you have, your own voice.

It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true. It is not the satisfying sensation of everything slipping into place for which you have yearned. It's more like, Oh, right.

A real editor isn't just someone you work with; he's your guide. He sees your brain doing its thing and learns its weaknesses and abilities, and if he's really good, he figures out what you need to hear to compensate for the former and accentuate the latter. He is the person you trust with the most intimate thing you have, your own voice.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.

A prudent person after all can pick something Even from an enemy.