Quotes About Insight

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they've told me. Do you think that's crazy? "No," I said, shaking my head, "I'd guess your method works quite well.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else in the world ever can.

What's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don't necessarily end up so. That's the feeling I have, as someone who's felt this, who's experienced it.

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you

If you don't know what you're looking for, it's not easy to look for it." Erika

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything.

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That's all. If you think about it, that's kind of like constructing a vacuum.

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?" "Nothing is written in your eyes. I replied. It is written in my eyes and i see the reflection in yours

Your brain is made to think about difficult things. To help you get to a point where you understand something that you didn't understand at first. And that becomes the cream of your life. The rest is boring and worthless.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

Eyes mark the shape of the city.

To understand something and to put that something into a form that you can see with your own eyes are two completely different things. If you could manage to do both equally well, living would be a lot simpler (from Honey Pie)

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.