Quotes About Insight

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine

what a dull-witted slug the average human being is.

Mirar está al alcance de cualquier holgazán necesitado de un corte de pelo.

To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.

Write what you know

Shakespeare hiçbir ÅŸey yaratmad?. O, doÄŸru bir ÅŸekilde gözlemledi ve fevkalade resmetti.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. (the other Mark).

O Biblii]: Jest to ksiÄ™ga bardzo interesujÄ…ca. Zawiera wiele szlachetnej poezji, trochÄ™ pomysÅ'owych baÅ›ni, trochÄ™ ociekajÄ…cych krwiÄ… historii, trochÄ™ po?ytecznych moraÅ'ów, mnóstwo nieprzyzwoitoÅ›ci i ponad tysiÄ…c kÅ'amstw.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there. HUNTING

Wir sollten darauf achten, einer Erfahrung nur so viel Weisheit zu entnehmen, wie in ihr steckt - mehr nicht; damit wir nicht der Katze gleichen, die sich auf eine heiße Herdplatte setzte. Sie setzt sich nie wieder auf eine heiße Herdplatte - und das ist richtig; aber sie setzt sich auch nie wieder auf eine kalte.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.

His intertwined understanding informed his professional path; his path informed an industry.

I'm willing to make sense as soon as the rest of the world does.

Often we see the situation (A) and the reaction (C) but are unaware of the interpretation (B).

The ruminations are mine, let the world be yours.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.

Hopefully you'll be able to make sense of what I can represent though still fail to understand.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing'. Of course, not knowing hardly prevents the approaching chaos.

Accepting his analysis hardly altered the way I felt.

You know this is still the simple answer. I guess the complicated one I don't feel like getting into.

Strange how clarity can come at such a time and place, so unexpectedly, so out of the blue, though who's firing the bolt?

I'm seeing now, not remembering but something else . . .