Quotes About Insight

How long should one remain in the dark?", asks Author Florence Scovel Shinn. "Until one can see in the dark", she cleverly answers.

All suffering comes from the violation of intuition

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Nastiness of others is the mirror they give to us to realize our real beauty.

We learn a lot from our own mistakes, experience worth.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.

silence usually taught him more than the company of others.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

It is not always the events that touch us personally that affect us the most.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are

La dominante característica de mi naturaleza, y que hubiera interesado a otra mujer distinta de ti, es mi espantosa lucidez. Esta habilidad en engañarse a uno mismo, que ayuda a vivir a la mayor parte de los mortales, me ha faltado siempre a mí.

No les acontece a muchos hombres hallar en la realidad, al alcance de su vista, ese mundo que la mayoría no descubre más que en sí mismos, cuando tienen el valor y la paciencia de acordarse.

Es posible no ver durante medio siglo más que un lado de la criatura que comparte nuestra vida?

a aquello que se ha aprendido, a la par que se sigue aprendiendo—

Women are very complicated, even if you are a psychiatrist.

But, in reality, being unhappy might also teach him something about happiness.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Edouard said that he didn't take Hector for a fool, but he could see that Hector had fallen in love, which was worse than being a fool.

Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow.

Because the problem with psychiatry is that you mostly study people who aren't doing so well, whereas if you spent a little more time studying people who are doing very well, it might give you some good ideas to help the ones who are not.

I know all except myself.

Quiet people often have a weather sense that loud people lack. They feel the wind-changes of conversations, and shiver in the chill of unspoken resentments.