Quotes About Insight

Like any craft, writing is mastered by practice and patience, and if one has any "knack" for it at all, that very knack—paradoxically—can explicate everything under the sun but itself.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of afterthought

The truth may be hard to find, but it is out there—somewhere.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.

It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.

Aucun ouvrage de référence au monde, avec ses citations, ne peut remplacer le lien organique qu'une affirmation trouvée par nous-même établit avec notre intuition et notre attention, si bien qu'il se forme une véritable richesse pour notre esprit. »

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

Let the dreamers and the seers keep watch. It is what we do.

What she referenced with such careless ease seemed a world-shattering notion to me.

All knowledge is worth having

C'è perspicacia nella follia.

Knowledge is never wasted.

You've a way of putting matters into perspective." "You're young." Urist smiled slightly. "You'll learn the trick of it.

Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.

Jacqueline Wilson

If her soul were a room, it was as if a light were now shinning in a corner that had been dark.

you should know that all maps are drawn in hindsight. And hindsight, if interpreted with care, is what brings us wisdom.

the power of the question was in the question itself? He'd taught her that one must let a question linger in the mind as one might savor wine on the tongue, and he'd cautioned that a rush to answer could diminish all chance of insight. Indeed, if one continually avoided questions by trying to answer them immediately, such impatience would become a barrier on the path to greater knowledge of oneself.

Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions.

In all your getting, get understanding.

Does it sound crazy to say I looked at her and saw the world falling into some kind of order that I didn't even know it was out of?

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision.

focused attention results in deeper and subtler perceptions.

Don't be idiots. For the love of Christ, don't be idiots.