Quotes About Insight

But it is only possible to talk clearly about less important things. The greatest truths lie within, always within. They cannot be given. They must be found

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

Anybody can look like a genius if they have all the answers ahead of time," Quinn said.

Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper

Briar: So I guess I was the last to know. Rosethorn: Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Maybe it takes a coward more courage—not less—to do and not do things. Perhaps cowards understand the world so much better than brave folk.

Commanders have an eye not just for what they do, but for what those around them do. Commanders size up people's strengths and weaknesses. They know where someone will shine and where they will collapse. Other warriors will obey a true commander because they can tell that the commander knows what he- or she- is doing.

People aren't that clever mostly, are they

And adults say young people these days don't know anything. If only those adults knew that you, Jorality Bancanor, knew everything. Why they'd have hope for the future.

So there is light but only if you can see past the pain

no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.

Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing we have begun, at last, to understand.

You should visit before you pass judgement on a place.

I see you are beginning to read me like a scroll.

Lit more than enlightened.

Because you told me once that the difference between a columnist and a reporter is that the columnist has the luxury to not only ask why but to try and answer it.

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

I like the modern form. Anyone who absolutely has to understand everything he sees misses a lot. It's not always true that obscure words come from obscure thoughts.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

Only a woman could make so much out of so little. Give them a single fact and they'd fashion it into a story before taking a single breath.