Quotes About Insight

They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.

On the other hand, I had to remind myself that, unlike you, I'm the sort of person whose imagination gets overstimulated from very little. And sometimes I get confused between what I've nakedly perceived and what I've varnished upon that perception.

I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him. Then I turn to look for what it is we're supposed to be seeing.

the general ignominy that is the corollary of insight, i.e., the ignominy of having thus far lived in error, of having failed, until the moment of so-called insight, to understand what could have been understood earlier, an ignominy only deepened by prospective shame, because the moment of insight serves as a reminder that more such moments lie ahead, and that one always goes forward in error.

Vede, caro amico, la natura non è mai tanto benigna come quando ci regala un piccolo difetto. Se fossi venuto al mondo senza imperfezioni, probabilmente non avrei imparato niente.

Demek ki hayat?n?n k?rk beÅŸ y?l?n? körlük içinde yaÅŸam??t?, kendisine veya dünyaya ait hiçbir ÅŸey bilmeden.

The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.

What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

When all cats have closed eyes, we gave the gift of sight to the cat who is blind. You see more than most, but look inside, too. See your own strength.

I began to get the idea that this wasn't the brightest cat I'd ever met.

Jayno-eyes?

Leafpool can't do that," Lionpaw went on. "None of the medicine cats can. Jaypaw is already making predictions about trouble in other Clans, too. That must be his power—to see things other cats can't." "He's the least blind of us all

CHAPTER 6 Dovewing

This one will see into the shadows.

It takes some cats longer to see past their weaknesses clearly enough to appreciate their strengths

Knowledge is wasted on those without the wisdom to know how to use it. And wisdom comes only with time.

Jaypaw narrowed his eyes. "I'm not as blind as you think.

What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

Du ser splinten i din nestes øye, men ikke bjelken i ditt eget.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.