Quotes About Insight

What are the two types of people who can see things that aren't there, Kate? And his quiet whisper of a punch line. Visionaries and psychopaths.

Welche zwei Arten von Menschen sehen Dinge, die es nicht gibt, Kate? Visionäre und Psychotiker.

Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.

Tal vez sea bueno poner las cosas en perspectiva, pero a veces, creo que la única perspectiva es realmente estar allí.

Ves cosas, guardas silencio y entiendes. Eres un marginad

Vivir al margen ofrece una perspectiva única, pero siempre llega el momento de entrar en escena y ver el mundo desde adentro.

The more you know, the sadder you get.

What we see here is becauselessness itself.

Experience, the wise man said, is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.

For me," he says, "the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew." In a new poem, he wrote, he "meets himself coming home.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

A blind person could make a lifelong study of the eye, properties of light, the sight process and become a great expert in the field, but in another sense he would know nothing about sight. A person could know a great deal about God and yet not know God.

Through his suffering, he peers into the core of things and sees that the judgment of man is thistle-down in the wind.

I like the people. But, considered generally, they are a collection of ingenious blockheads.

he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind.

If you ask enough questions, strange as they seem at the time, you may eventually learn something worthwhile.

Yes, you could say that I did. It kind of creeps up on you and catches you in a world that's, y'know, none that anyone will ever know except someone that has been there.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

Even meaning and destiny themselves can be read in ordinary things, if you have the gift.

Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

As all travellers know, the experience of a foreign country teaches about your own.

A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves.

Everything makes sense if you look at it long enough.