686 Quotes About Insight

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

I think sometimes, despite our good intentions and wise choices, something's are up to fate and we learn to play our part the best we can.

We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself.

Lonzi said the only thing worth loving was what was to come, and since what was to come was unforeseeable---only a cretin or a liar would try to predict the future---the future had to be lived now, in the now, as intensity.

Insight involves trust - trusting that the information coming through is correct.

Thank you sir for your criticism. If you knew about me what I know about me, you would have written a longer letter.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment."(A Qualified Farewell)

Historians imposed false order upon random events, too, probably without even realizing what they were doing. Amos had a phrase for this. “Creeping determinism,” he called it—and jotted in his notes one of its many costs: “He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.