Quotes About Epiphany

The Greeks called that sudden understanding anamnesis. Literally, "the forgetting of the forgetting.

One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe.

even the oldest and most familiar places retain an ineradicable capacity to surprise you.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

In the Spanish-speaking Americas, Christmas is much more than a one-day event followed by a staggering credit card bill. The festivities last for weeks, beginning well before Christmas, and continuing straight through to the arrival of the Three Kings and the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6. Las Navidades involves a lot more partying and a lot less shopping than a US. Christmas.

The well-known biblical story of the Magi who journey to find the Christ child and to bring gifts offers an emblematic story of knowing. They are not called wise men for nothing! nor is it a meaningless accident that we use the word epiphany in referring to a moment of insight. Epiphany is the name of the church season in which we celebrate God's revealing himself to these Gentiles--and to us.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Teaching is the parenthetical hold, the instant of discovery, left to the instant.

Sometimes you find something new, and you just say, 'Wow.'

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

Noon bells sang out with their usual ignorance of mood, marking out moments of grief and worry, elation and confusion. The bells said that at its core, human life was fundamentally a sort of organic clockwork, while the winds and skylarks that swept against the sound of metronomic iron timekeeping argued for variety, subtlety, epiphany.

Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

On the other hand I won't conceal the fact from anyone that once upon a time a little something happened to me. I saw a little something. But never except just that once.

I don't have any personal memories of the broadcast of 'Civilisation'. I was born the year afterwards. But the many personal stories I have heard from the people it touched do resonate as I had my own television-induced epiphany.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge.