Quotes About Insight

un vaticinio tiene más autoridad que un comentario.

porque el hombre sólo podía descubrir su verdadera naturaleza al verse en el espejo de la experiencia ajena.

Como ella, Germán sólo leía por placer, pero quisiera o no, cada nuevo libro le enseñaba algo desconocido sobre sí mismo.

La mujeres son como la ayahuasca.

Aunque hará bien en no olvidar que una persona sabia es aquella que monotoniza la existencia pues, entonces, cada pequeño incidente, si sabe leerlo literariamente, tiene para ella carácter de maravilla.

el proceso de escribir propiamente dicho es el que permite al autor descubrir lo que quiere decir

You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.

The Colonel's face cleared, 'My dear fellow, of course he should. One cannot write about that which one has never seen.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Man is not in the world to set it right but to see it rightly, and right seeing is the passport from illusion to the heaven of accomplishment. If you want to change the world, or to be an influence for such a change, you must begin within yourself by changing the way you see the world. Get back to the principle—a whole Universe, a whole man.

Every experience makes you a man.

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

there should be some learning when a domain model is discussed.

crucial discoveries always emerge during the design/implementation effort.

Success comes in an emerging set of abstract concepts that make sense of all the detail

Author's Afterword

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.