Quotes About Insight

Human beings have an ability to simply recognize the right thing to do sometimes. Judgment, Klein points out, is rarely a calculated weighing of all options, which we are not good at anyway, but instead an unconscious form of pattern recognition.

Wisdom is prudent strength.

On another occasion

What he found was unsurprising.

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

But the strength of women lies in recognizing differences between us as creative, and in standing up to those distortions which we inherited without blame, but which are now ours to alter. The angers of women can transform difference through insight into power. For anger between peers births change, not destruction, and the discomfort and sense of loss it often causes is not fatal, but a sign of growth.

The angers between women will not kill us if we can articulate them with precision, if we listen to the content of what is said with at least as much intensity as we defend ourselves agains the manner of saying. When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar. I have tried to learn my anger's usefulness to me, as well as its limitations.

Simone de Beauvoir's words echo in my head: "It is in the recognition of the genuine conditions of our lives that we gain the strength to act and our motivation for change.

I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poetry to mean — in order to cover a desperate wish for imagination without insight.

When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar.

speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poetry to mean—in order to cover a desperate wish for imagination without insight.

It is sometimes both the curse and the blessing of the poet to perceive without yet being able to order those perceptions, and that is another name for Chaos.

Being out of work brought a lot of new and starkly instructive experiences.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

I never once gave a thought to the days when I believed that bulbs were starburst patterns of color, because that was what all light looked to me.

I see much better now and my eyes hurt.

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets.- Bertha, The Father

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it's served without advice or insight.

George had been surprised by my ability to leave him. He had not seen that in me.

The events of the past cannot be fully understood when you are the only element of the past actively engaged in reliving it.

for me it provided a kaleidoscopic view of everything that was wrong with me. I could already feel it opening all the windows in my hear, giving me a panoramic view of my flaws

Was it a universal truth that the closer you looked at something, the more you would see but the less you would understand what you where looking at?