Quotes About Insight

D]er wahre Träger von Grausamkeit im Menschen [ist] die Unschuld.

Menschen brauchten Abstand voneinander. Gerhard hatte lange genug in Berlin gelebt, um das zu wissen.

When you read a good book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it" —

In the same way that a word repeated over and over begins to sound bizarre, so an object scrutinized with such attention will start to shed its everyday invisibility. So pepper grinders become armless women who scream when their heads are twisted and rain bitterness, a cheese-grater becomes a steel wall of tears, or a light bulb the lost eye of a Cyclops. The

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Es la distancia la que embellece las cosas y las despeja del horror del momento, de la miseria de la cotidianidad

aquella frase de Pascal de que el corazón tiene razones que la razón no entiende.

Sólo se puede vencer a los adversarios si uno es capaz de pensar como ellos, de lo contrario uno termina engañándose a sí mismo.

A veces el mal está en los ojos del que mira y no en lo que ve.

Admiro tu capacidad para ponerte en la piel de los demás, para comprender sus razones. Sólo se puede vencer a los adversarios si uno es capaz de pensar como ellos, de lo contrario uno termina engañándose a sí mismo.

En realidad la gente está muy necesitada de hacerse oír, y si uno tiene la paciencia y la humildad de escuchar sin interrumpir puede enterarse de las cosas más insólitas.

Love is blind," Harriet quipped. "But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted.

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

They say that a smart person learns from her mistakes," she interrupted, her voice forcefully ending his protest. "But a truly smart person learns from other people's mistakes.

Isn't it nice," the older lady said, leaning in so that only Penelope could hear her words, "to discover that we're not exactly what we thought we were?

Dizem que uma pessoa inteligente aprende com os seus erros (...), mas uma pessoa verdadeiramente inteligente aprende com os erros dos outros.

Was the world populated with blind men, or merely stupid ones?

It isn't wisdom to repeat platitudes." "It is wisdom to know which ones bear repeating.

Idiots. The world was populated with idiots. She'd long since learned the truth of that, along with the depressing fact that there was very little she could do about it.

He was wearing that enigmatic little smile of his, as if he knew something that she didn't. Actually, she thought, it was more like he knew something that she never would.

But a truly smart person learns from other people's mistakes.

They say that a smart person learns from her mistakes," she interrupted, her voice forcefully ending his protest. "But a truly smart person learns from other people's mistakes." She pulled away, then turned to face him. "I'd like to think I'm a truly smart person. Please don't take that away from me.

But her advice had been excremental.