Quotes About Epiphany

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

Then I had one of those moments of desperate inspiration, a brilliant idea born of panic.

Light had dawned in the utter darkness.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

Says Carroll: "When I came to understand that the reason I can remember the past but not the future is ultimately related to conditions at the Big Bang, that was a startling epiphany.

Do you ever have those moments where suddenly you make a quantum jump in understanding, where you see the world so differently that you cannot imagine how you could have perceived it any other way before? Do you have those times when this new understanding makes you feel as though up until that moment you must have been deluded or asleep or just plain stupid? I

Hot damn! I got it," Stick shouted as she ran out of the bathroom, her face covered in soapsuds. " 'Zoe!

come in a dream or a flash of insight. Frequently you have read of inventors telling that when they waked, the answer to whatever it was, was there in their brains. This

And an epiphany—the only redemption for having a bad father is being a good one.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

There are more experiences in life than you'd think for which there are no words.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder.