Quotes about Insight

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

holy men only know what God reveals to them.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

To understand is to forgive.

Coward," Pablo said bitterly. "You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish." "Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly," said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase.

You did not have to like it because you understood it.

Here's the reason why the peasant is wise. He's wise because he's beaten from the very start. Give him power and then you'll see how wise he is.

This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.