Quotes About Insight

No one can know everything about another person. Not even God, probably.

Pero el principio de que el saber está por encima de la ignorancia en cualquier situación constituía la base de su manera de pensar y su postura ante la vida. Por muy doloroso que resultase, debía saberlo. Porque sólo el saber fortalece a las personas.

If I can draw you the right way, maybe you'll be able to see yourself through my eyes, I said, If all goes well, of course. That's why we needs pictures. You're right--that's why we need pictures. Or literature, or music, or anything of that sort.

I'm forever realizing things too late.

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.

Truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths

It's like I'd been born with a blind spot, and was always missing something. And what I missed was always the most important thing of all.

A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos.

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.

I can read the two of you as easily as I can a watermelon patch in broad daylight.

Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

Even from whatever miserable experience you might have, there is something to be learned.

A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that 'observes' to reason that 'acts'. That's what critical.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves

If a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn.

All efforts of reason and analysis are, in a word, like trying to slice through a watermelon with sewing needles. They may leave marks on the outer rind, but the fruity pulp will remain perpetually out of reach.

You don't get it, do you? Person A understands Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.

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

As far as I could see, she had no opinion at all about anything that was not set directly in front of her (and in fact, she was extremely nearsighted).

Better to know a little, I figure, than nothing at all.

Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together' 'Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.' (from Honey Pie)

Si vous n'avez jamais lu Hamlet au cours de votre vie, c'est comme si vous l'aviez passée au fond d'une mine de charbon ».