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Insight Quotes
"But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all."
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"Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er."
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"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"
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"What you see is highly dependent on how you look."
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"Grass is never green by accident."
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"It's not always best to know what's going on beneath the surface."
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"See the world from another perspective and things would be simple."
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"If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth."
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"To point out nonepistemic motives in another's view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person's connection to the world as it is."
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"When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simple; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple."
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"The clearest mirror in the universe is not made of glass, but of a loving soul."
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"It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course-for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him."
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"Where others only see bricks, train your eyes to see a palace."
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"In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power."
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"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
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"It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit."
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"The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent."
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"Those who teach the most about humanity, aren't always human."
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"One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect."
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"That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart."
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem."
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"Don't confuse symmetry with balance."
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"When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use)."
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"It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light."
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"Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!"
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"The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection."
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"No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe."
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"If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror."
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"He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and uncertainties of the future better."
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"Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?"
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"When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault."
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"Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me.""People have been wrongly condemned before now.""Exactly; simply because I wasn't there.""I never thought of that."
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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."
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"The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations."
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"Nothing but your choices define your true intelligence."
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"Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while."
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"People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth."
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"Nothing is perfect, nothing is imperfect. Perfection and imperfection reside in your perception."
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"I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination."
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"Your opinion should be based on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears & feel with your own heart."
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"One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It's like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face."
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"And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all."
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"When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice."
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"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."
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