Quotes About Insight

Reader, look,Not at his picture, but his book.

Talking is the disease of age.

I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

Sima made a space for me to hear that there were depths beneath what I was saying that I hadn't sounded yet.

From time to time there have to be individuals who deliberately take on the burden of guilt because they see the situation clearer than those who have the power.

As Oscar Wilde remarked: "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

It was rumored that Sir Bernard could identify the cause of death simply by smelling a corpse. In 1938, the Washington Post hailed him as "England's modern Sherlock Holmes.

Something struck us as wrong, which only meant that we had not thought of it ourselves.

Now that I've reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I've learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That's as far as I've gotten I'm afraid.

You're suffering from some serious myopia my friend.

He had to learn how not to let his eyes be bewildered by manifestations, and thereby learn to treat appearances as signs and codes of the interior.

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

Her eyes were narrowed as if they were endlessly trying to exclude most of what they saw.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Learning what you know is something you have to do every day and every moment.

As he walked though, listening to his happy footfalls, he felt the world telling him to stop looking, for then he would see beyond; to stop thinking, for then he would comprehend; to stop trying to make sense of things, for then he would find the truest grace.

We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see. Our

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

If You Look Too Deeply Everything Breaks Your Heart.

my mother was, though intelligent, not particularly intellectual.

Anna had a better idea than I did of the mental, emotional, and physical demands the job would make on both of us.

was coming to a similar conclusion.

As Hank moved from one issue to another, pressing for solutions or more analysis, I could see why he had been an effective CEO.