Quotes About Insight

what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

Opinions are like some kind of crust that grows on top of things and you want to kind of peel them off.

La cámara transforma a cualquiera en turista de la realidad de otras personas, y a la larga de la propia.

Toda a capacidade de compreender está enraizada na capacidade de dizer não.

A câmera faz com que todos sejam turistas na realidade alheia e, eventualmente, na sua própria.

No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.

Hay belleza o cuando menos interés en todo, si se ve con un ojo suficientemente perspicaz.

Yes, eyes are special. But besides the eyes of the flesh, which are mostly water, there are the secret eyes. Don't you know, that you can really see? In a way most people can't. And that most of what people are looking at is just debris.

La fotografía es, antes que nada, una manera de mirar. No es la mirada misma

The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: 'There is the surface. Now think—or rather feel, intuit—what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.

Walking into one's so-called "destiny" was the ability to see disruptions not as obstacles, but as road signs, then follow them where they led.

We often say that life imitates art, but sometimes, art also infiltrates life.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to the truth. —Fyodor Dostoevsky

understanding. The day she and Rand had broken up, her father had spoken with surprising insight: There's a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It's like breathing. You have to do it or you'll die. And when it's over, your soul starts to bleed, Livvy. There's no pain in the world like it, I swear. Now, finally

Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively.

It was just part of her nature, along with her habit of wanting to know what was behind the appearances that other people put on when they went out the door in the morning, and suspecting their motivations, and questioning their intentions.

Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not. Perhaps that is what Raphael means.

This experience led me to form a hypothesis: perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation.

any cat he spoke to would stay quite still with an expression of faint surprise on its face as if it had never heard such good sense in all its life nor ever expected to again.

He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had never actually been introduced to one or shaken its hand.

This realisation – the realisation of the Insignificance of the Knowledge – came to me in the form of a Revelation. What I mean by this is that I knew it to be true before I understood why or what steps had led me there.

Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.

me, my Rebbe was the geologist of the soul. You see, there are so many treasures in the earth. There is gold, there is silver, and there are diamonds. But if you don't know where to dig, you'll only find dirt and rocks and mud. The Rebbe can tell you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do yourself.