Quotes About Insight

He had still, he reflected, not learned the ultimate secret. He understood how; he did not understand why.

Temel gerçekler görüÅŸ alanlar? d???ndayd?. Kar?ncalar gibiydiler; ancak küçük olaylar? görebiliyorlard?, büyüklerini görmekten yoksundular.

In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

Literature is an attempt to influence one's contemporaries through the recording of experience.

Very early in her married life he had decided — though perhaps it was only that he knew her more intimately than he knew most people — that she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. 'The human sound-track' he nicknamed her in his own mind.

What writers, artists, scientists and philosophers say today is indicative of future rather than current developments

After all, that is what the merely casual onlooker always sees — the outward appearance, the non-functional, the surfaces of things. No one who is really involved in the landscape ever sees the landscape.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already

En nuestra sociedad, aquellos que saben mejor lo que está ocurriendo son a la vez los que están más lejos de ver al mundo como realmente es. En general, a mayor comprensión, mayor autoengaño: los más inteligentes son en esto los menos cuerdos.

Ver lo que tenemos delante de nuestras narices requiere un esfuerzo constante

Senin görüÅŸlerini sonuna kadar dinledikten sonra kendi bildiÄŸini okumakta direten, senden daha zeki bir ç?lg?na kar?? ne yapabilirsin ki, diye geçirdi akl?ndan.

La cordura no cuenta en las estadísticas.

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They

En iyi kitaplar, bize bildiklerimizi söyleyenlerdir.

They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones.

NASIL'?n? anl?yorum: NEDEN'ini anlam?yorum.

In that world, those with seeing eyes could only blunder about, but the blind man would be at home, and now instead of being the one who was guided by others, he might be one the one to whom the others clung for guidance.

Child of the Blessing, who sees not what is, but sees what is not, and seeing thus what is not, imagines also what may be.

Perhaps there is some secret we might learn if we but sought from those who knew

Kobbi, thou bringest to me a rare thought. A new light gleamed in Bansir's eyes. It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having.

Truth is always simple.

This shrewd deceit taught me my first lesson in looking out for myself.