Quotes About Insight

hay más placer en marchar hacia la verdad que en llegar a ella".

La síntesis es la antorcha del genio.

The Mediterraneans, who do not think clearly, do see clearly.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Twenty years is more than enough to know a town, and no one can convince me otherwise. San Diego had six thousand souls, and I knew all the townspeople as if I myself had given birth to them and I myself had nursed them. I knew on which foot this one limped, and which shoe was too tight for that one, who was courting which young woman.

there are more profound truths than one finds in history

Those who try to understand life, which, by definition, cannot be understood, are those who do not understand poetry, which is, in short, the only thing that can be understood.

Vivi dentro del monstro y conozco sus entranas

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

I was always, luckily, only a reader.

writers who cast about for something new will scarcely ever be great, for great things could not have escaped the attention of earlier observers.

No hagas caso de mis consejos; la experiencia está al final del camino y yo no debo quitarte ni el gusto del camino, ni la triste riqueza que vas a encontrar cuando lo hayas recorrido.

Cómo va a entender que esas cosas, que se pueden hacer pensando en otras, no agotan como las que no pueden hacerse ni pensando constante, profunda, desgarradoramente en ellas mismas?

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

But further, a man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and Observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration.

Man is what he reads.

Though a man hath the best eyes in the world, he cannot see any way but that which he turns them.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

Seeing within changes one's outer vision" Does anyone know the book and page that this quote by Joseph Chilton Pearce appears for a reference???

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.