Quotes About Insight

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark.

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.

But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.

She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.

This is how you learn to see: You put together a crew. No one can see a damn thing clearly with only two eyes.

It's a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you're the protagonist, but really, you're just backstory.

If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

Most people don't like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.

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If one keeps one's eyes open, it is possible to see things in many different ways.

I can see clearly now, my brain is gone. Lucy

Wisdom was so easy to pass on--much harder to practice.

Sometimes you need to explain your experiences in order to understand them yourself.

Don't go to the hardware store for bread.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Grasp the subject; the words will follow.

A clever learns more from fool than fools learn from the wise.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of the people who made the book. I can figure out who they were, or how they worked.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

One did not need to penetrate David's secret counsels or insinuate a man in his bodyguard. All one needed was a pair of years and access to the royal precincts. Just to eavesdrop upon his singing was to develop an accurate idea of his state of mind.

who they were, or how they worked. That's how I add my few grains to the sandbox of human knowledge. It's what I love best about what I do. And there were so many

How the more you looked, the more you gleaned. All the 'ways of seeing' that John Berger wrote about.