Quotes About Insight

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

I smiled into the darkness. There was nothing "just" about metaphors, I was beginning to think; they followed me everywhere, illuminating and failing and illuminating again.

It was hard to fool someone who could tell what you were thinking.

As though suddenly realized how intimate it seemed to be in my bedroom, he cleared his throat and took a step back. He gave my room one more look and took another step back. "It's amazing what a room can reveal." Then he walked down the hallway and knocked on Tiffany's door. I wondered what he'd discover looking into her room.

And thank you for not laughing at me. People tend to disregard us old ladies—they think we're only good for sewing robes and making hot chocolate, that we're crazy since we can no longer bear children. But we're smarter than everyone because we don't have distractions anymore. No kids. No husbands for many of us. We always knew the evil that men did, and we still do. Just now, no one believes us.

The thing suppressed as an intrusion," Eric said, "is almost always worth looking at.

Reading him was like reading runes — apparently you had to know the language.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

The best stories have many meanings; their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.

she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see

Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had.

If answers are the destination, questions are the oars.

You're mental. I always knew you were.

The eyes themselves were the eyes of a writer, always a little tired in expression.

Maybe God posted signs visible only to those with eyes to see. She wasn't one of them, but she could accept that maybe her husband was.

Wake up Smarter. Sleep With a Librarian.

three degrees in the intelligence of mankind. To the first belong those who understand things for themselves by virtue of their own natural endowments; to the second those who have at least the wit to discern what others understand; and to the third those who neither understand things for themselves nor yet through the demonstrations which others afford them.

we are all too prone to judge—upon insufficient knowledge.

In Major Sands the intelligence was absent; but like most men in his case he was not aware of it.

To become a great learner, you always need to become a keen observer.

Do not entertain the fool unless you want the joke to be on you..

Yes, everything that is truly seen must become a poem.

Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things.