Quotes About Insight

The power of science comes from being able to say something, without having to say everything.

A great beauty is a muse for the mind, a great mind a muse for the soul.

Experience as a player can help you just in one situation: I can understand what the players are thinking. But the job is different. You have to study to be a manager.

He once said that before he was thirty, he had done everything on instinct. After thirty he began to understand why he did the things he did.

I am the scalpel that cuts out infection, and the heartbreak that makes men wiser.

They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

What value can one ordinary man have in a magical world? What can a mortal bring to the affairs of immortals? Insight. Honor. Morality. Perspective. Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

I've never been good at puzzles. When you wear a suit of armour that can punch holes through the world, mostly you don't have to be. Other people will normally fall all over themselves to tell you everything you need to know. The Somnambulist started to snore quietly. Walker

But he didn't say anything, he just turned the lens on me. I waited for him to lead us in, but he said nothing. And then it struck me, one of those moments when a switch just flips in your head. Ah. So this is how it's going to be. I need to lead, and the camera will follow.

If you want to know the people around you," Stalin said, "find out what they read.

Historians are bad prophets but good at prophesying the future when they already know what happened.

Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almost other-worldly.

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

I like stories very much," the priest said. "They help me understand myself better.

The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.

But it takes a very special kind of genius to see the crimes that hide from us in plain sight.

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin." Simone Schwarz-Bart

he would ask me a thousand little questions, just, he said, to sound out the future a little.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

Learn to put things into perspective.

Sometimes it's wise to look at life through your own lenses,

You might not know the type of a tree you are dealing with, but once its fruit appears, you can't be ignorant anymore.