Quotes About Insight

Dass man gerade die wichtigsten Empfindungen erst versteht, sobald man sie selbst durchlitten hat.

Cómo soporta uno que lo único que puede llegar a conocer sea lo que llega por casualidad a sus ojos, a sus oídos? ¿Cómo se puede respirar sin el aire universal que brota de los libros?

have heard, again, from other sources — you may laugh, but it is always madness that first gives one an insight into the intensity of a passion — that he has promised vast sums in the way of donations both to the synagogue and to the parish priest in the event of his child's recovery.

Seul le malheur procure une vision large et profonde des réalités de ce monde.

Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.

Die zweite war, daß sie fast immer in ihrem Leben die einfachsten sind.

don't understand

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists call a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

She is a character in a novel who reads the other characters as characters and rewrites them as people.

fundamental difference in approach can make the short stories of Stella Gibbons seem somewhat obvious in their tone. And yet this is misleading: these stories are not obvious at all; they simply adhere to a storytelling convention that has been lost sight of in our quest for greater depth of characterization and psychological insight.

Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.

Learning and seeing are more important than education.

There are two kinds: an eye for details, which discovers new things, and a fixed look that follows only a ready-made plan and speeds it up for the moment.

We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...

Wir sehen die Welt nicht wie ein Botaniker, der gleichzeitig Architekt, Arzt, Geologe und Kapitän ist. Das Kennen geschieht nicht so wie das Sehen, es verträgt sich nicht einmal allzugut damit, und es ist oft eine schlechtere Methode, um festzustellen, was es gibt.

A novel is a mirror that strolls along a highway. Now it reflects the blue of the skies, now the mud puddles underfoot.

A good book is an event in my life.

Virgil cheered me up with his usual gentle logic, helping me get some perspective larger than the pencil point of reality my focus had narrowed into.

which no other failed applicant had even thought of trying to do, because most people don't regard seeing as a skill you can get better at. And when it came to

Your spirit already thinks 'outside of the box'. It's called intuition. Your body just needs to catch up and open its eye(lid).

Just because your intuition can't fit it into one of the five senses, hardly means it doesn't exist.

Premonitions are there to prepare you for what's to come.

I'm not trying to steal your thunder, but I feel like I'm the one who just woke up."

He deconstructed things in his head," I said slowly. "Then he put them back together in a way I could understand. Brilliance is seeing what others can't and rendering it simple.