686 Quotes About Insight

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

When knowledge is put into practice, then through your experience of it, it becomes your insight.

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

Some things are little on the outside, and rough and common, but I remember the time when the dust of the streets were as pleasing as Gold to my infant eyes, and now they are more precious to the eye of reason.

…they looked about as careful and as discreet as a troupe of Visigoths at an afternoon tea party.

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

What I’m telling you is just a fragment, but sometimes it’s just a fragment what it takes…

In many if not most cases we truly believe that what is merely a means is really an end.

I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home.