Quotes About Insight

People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.

Manchmal ist Unwissenheit das größte Geschenk auf Erden.

The truth is to be found in every single sentence on every single page, but you've skimmed over it

wrote Haffner in 1940. This is startling to read now. Today, the

Every human knows everything, but each thing requires keys to open the locks to learn

Assim manda a justiça - a inteligência e a sabedoria foram e são ainda hoje as qualidades que transformam o mendigo em príncipe.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right. Even while you are asking, you discover all at once what you hadn't been able to find out in three whole years.

Wie begrijpt, die haat niet.

What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

Luck never made a man wise.

No man was ever wise by chance.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

La connerie, c'est la décontraction de l'intelligence !

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

THERE'S A SIMPLE way to understand what a blind man feels in this life: close your eyes and try to do something. Something ordinary, not difficult. Something you normally do anyway 'without looking' – take a spoon out of a drawer in a table, light a cigarette, put a CD in a music centre. It only takes five minutes at the most to understand everything and know that you'll never forget it.

Much knowledge, much sorrow...

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

Cada época lee a sus clásicos de distinta manera. El lector encuentra en ellos los contenidos que le permiten aclarar su presente, resolver sus dilemas, vislumbrar con mayor claridad sus objetivos. Una gran obra trascenderá siempre las intenciones de su autor y las limitaciones de su tiempo

A kingdom journey removes scales from our eyes & allows us to see God all around us & even within.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Oh, a pipe smoker," said Henry. "Well, that narrows it down." "Sometimes," said Doyle, "there is nothing so significant as a trifle.

What he found were "a few brilliant beacons in a fog of fools.

I don't want to struggle to describe things anymore. I want to let experience happen without the filter of intellect.