Quotes About Insight

I think a great book--leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on--is a book that describes the world in a way that has not been done before; and that is recognized by those who read it as telling new truths.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

My fresh perspective provided her with a new alternative that had always been available to her; she just wasn't seeing it.

As Socrates said, "True learning is remembering.

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There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind

The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.

To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one's own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

That you I feel up in my brain, trying to rummage around inside my head, rearrange the furniture? I don't think that'll work. I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.

Jazz opened his eyes. Conner opened her eyes. Howie opened his eyes.

If in one's life a man can but find one truth, and pass it on to those who come after him, he has done well. But

The good news is you don't need to be brilliant to be wise. The bad news is that without wisdom, brilliance isn't enough.

But what a man sees still must depend on what he looks for. While I have eyes of my own, I shall not need to borrow yours.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Who was scarier - the girl who didn't care about the bigger picture, or the kids who did care, but were looking at the wrong picture?

Which is what literature is: that I cannot read without pain, without choking on truth.

The soul of man is nourished by learning, as the body is by food.

The ancient poet Philostratus said, "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.