Quotes About Insight

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.

I have said elsewhere that we have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can—if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough—be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being, what the hazards are of a fairly usual, everyday kind.

Pero ahora sabía, de un modo en que antes no lo había sabido, que lo que había heredado era vivificante y reparador para mi vida y lo sería hasta el final de mis días o incluso más allá. ... llegué a la conclusión de que si uno es capaz de profundizar lo suficiente, seguro que es capaz de atravesar la roca.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know... if one is honest.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

LAST NIGHT I lay awake for a long time, a really good "think" for a change.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone, and it may be that the virtue or possible insight I get from being so obviously alone-- being physically and in every way absolutely alone much of the time-- is a way into the universal state of man. The way in which one handles this absolute aloneness is the way in which one grows up, is the great psychic journey of everyman.

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware.

A smart man only tells half of what he thinks.

I've learned, I still have a lot to learn

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being unaware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of.

My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge.

Within three months of teaching, I had an enormous revelation; I realized I was not a writer who teaches, but a teacher who writes.

We are sa blind as we want to be

You find the path by walking it.

We laughed together. Our friendship was possible because Ivonne was wise without glitter, while I, too often, glittered without wisdom.

We are only as blind as we want to be

Knowing Momma, I knew that I never knew Momma.

I have learnt that I still have lot to learn.