Quotes About Insight

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen."

He's...like what I just said.

In his school photo, Edward had a rakish grin, like he knew something the others did not. A bit like David.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

Persuasion stems from understanding. We compel others by learning who they are and turning it against them.

So humanising is sorrow.

You can tell everything about a person by what happens when he opens his mouth.

Knowing you saw something is different from knowing what you saw.

The fault lies not in the eyes, but in the mind, a lazy thought process spoiled by a lifetime of optic nerve dependency. Not so for those like me.

you dig and dig until you strike the absolute truth.

JOURNAL INTIME: Wenn ich einmal darin lese, zum Beispiel weil ich ein Datum brauche für unser Gespräch, so bin ich bestürzt: daß ich vor zwei oder fünf Jahren genu zu derselben Einsicht gekommen bin – nur habe ich sie dann wieder vergessen, weil es mir nicht gelungen ist, nach meiner Einsicht zu leben; ich habe das Gegenteil gelebt mit zäher Energie.

I can't bear being told what I ought to feel; although I can see the subject under discussion, I feel like a blind man.

ein guter Abend, mehr als Zeitvertreib. Wenn jeder auf ein paar Gedanken kommt, die er nicht schon gehabt und früher ausgesprochen hat, dank der Gegenwart des andern.

The trick, he said over and over again in any number of contexts, is to disregard what everybody tells you until you have thought it through for yourself.

The trick is to discern a market – before there is any proof that one exists.

Economists, market advisers, political oracles, and clairvoyants all know this basic rule by heart: if you can't forecast right, forecast often.

Knowing how to get out of a bad situation may be the rarest of all speculative gifts.

The first step in reading the Bible is to ask God to help you understand it … Don't go to Scripture looking for your own idea; go searching for God's …

The Bible is not a newspaper to be skimmed but rather a mine to be quarried.

No wonder there is no wonder. We've figured it all out.

You'll go nowhere tomorrow that I haven't already been.

The day was a great eye, and it was not paying much attention to me now.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.