Quotes About Insight

Literary works quite often 'know' things that the reader does not know, or does not know yet, or perhaps will never know.

At its finest, it has produced work of rare insight and originality. At its least creditable, it represents little more than the foreign affairs department of postmodernism.

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

He remembered Zedd telling him that old age meant that the only thing he really knew was that he would never know it all, much less know enough.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.

I have always known, in a thousand little ways, that you were more than you claimed to be, that you were a special person. I have always been honored to have you as my friend.

it's no help to be ignorant of the truth....

to think of the solution—and not the problem.

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

It doesn't require an education, Sergeant Beata, to see what's right before your eyes. Use your head." Beata

Sometimes you have to step outside of yourself in order to see inside.

Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

That's one form of magic, of course. What, just knowing things? Knowing things that other people don't know.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best.

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.