Quotes About Insight

How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst. It is not as if, had you asked me, I would have claimed to fathom the thoughts and sentiments of two whose station in life was so far distant from mine. But in my own unexamined way I had believed that, working in their house and seeing to their needs, watching their comings and goings and their dealings with others, I had come to know them. How little, how very little, that knowledge had really amounted to.

had believed that, working in their house and seeing to their needs, watching their comings and goings and their dealings with others, I had come to know them. How little, how very little, that knowledge had really amounted to.

can see what others cannot see, but sometimes I miss what is apparent to the dimmest simpleton.

I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern of the whole.

Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.

For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.

It was as if a deep fog had settled on me and everything around me, and I groped my way from one chore to the next without really seeing anything clearly.

For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse.

When Titus speaks, I can hear every word. For me, that's like when the optician slides home the right lens and all the e's and g's and o's and c's become perfectly clear again and it isn't a struggle, even to read the bottom-most line...His voice touches places inside me like someone moving through a house, flicking light switches...No peering into corners for what's been said.

few dozen" wise, unselfish sages,

Er gebeuren dingen om ons heen. Maar we merken ze nauwelijks. We zijn doof en blind.

Een groot schrijver is altijd pessimist, want hij weet dat het leven moeilijk begint en slecht eindigt.

An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

To understand everything makes one tolerant.

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Necessity teaches all things

Old people see best in the distance.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.

You know nothing John Snow" -- the wildling Ygritte

Crawling into the skin of the other (empathy). 'It must be hard to …' 176

_It must have been_ are magical words that say to the _Other_, 'I understand how it was.