Quotes About Insight

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

I really love having an awareness.

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Love is desire for knowledge.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

When you've been married to someone for a while, you occasionally share these brief psychic moments, and right at that instant I know what she's going to say just before she says it, even while I'm thinking that it can't possible be true.

You realize that you don't understand yourself better than you understand anyone else.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

it would seem that these super-religious ascetics would be extremely so. But the witness of everyone who visited them for counsel was the opposite. They were some of the

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.

I have learned to pay attention to dreams, not least because of my training as a clinical psychologist. Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.

The things you can see, with even a single open eye. It's no wonder that people want to stay blind.

the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

Inopportune questioning can confuse, without enlightening, as well as deflecting you from action.