Quotes About Insight

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.

Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.

They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

We can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us.

The more you know, the more you know.

Actually, now that I thought about it, I couldn't place when our "bests" had been. When had either one of us been at our best? Hmm. There might be a message here somewhere. I'll let you know if I find it.

Mostly I'd like to feel a little less, know a little more.

Millie: Maggie's funny Maggie: I am that. I am that. And nobody knows better than meself how funny. When the good Lord thought me up He said, "I'll make her nothin' to look at but she'll be good to listen to." Come away with you now an' listen some more.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind

I was beginning to see that it didn't matter at all if I knew what was wrong with a client. The art of therapy is getting the client to see it.

True insights happen only when the therapist gets out of the way so that the patient is able to gain his or her own psychological knowledge.

There's nothing like failure for opening your mind.

Smart people are often too smart to take advice from others.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

The fact that you don't grasp the meaning of something doesn't mean it has none.

I think you're the first person I've ever known . . . I might not say it right. We'll see . . . who really sees me. And I mean the whole thing of me, not just the part that fits with how they want to see me. And it seems weird to me, because the first person I met who really sees me for all of who I am . . . you know . . . can't see.

In certain moments I suspect life knows exactly what it's doing.

People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone.

World is full of people so troubled they don't even understand themselves. You could offer them a thousand dollars to explain their motivations, but they can't tell you what they don't know.