Quotes About Insight

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

Truthfully, I think anything involving Tebow opens people's eyes.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

A good business book teaches simple truths.

The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena.

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

Why am I not just some old woman ranting in a room? I think because what I say connects with people's truths.

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.

I learn something new every game. Every game is always different, no matter how you try and think about it beforehand.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.