Quotes About Insight

A book is dead until you read it.

They knew a lot, the dead. How many times had she said to Harry they were the world's greatest untapped resource? It was true. All they'd seen, all they'd suffered, all they'd triumphed over – lost to a world in need of wisdom.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

The evidence of paranormal research shows that there is a part of our being that knows far more than the conscious mind. And the evidence of mystics through the ages suggests that there is a part of our being that knows even greater secrets than this.

With the use of a map, I could walk from Paris to Calcutta; without a map, I might find myself in Odessa. Well, if we had a similar 'map' of the human mind, a man could explore all the territory that lies between death and mystical vision, between catatonia and genius.

Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.

The Outsider is primarily a critic, and if a critic feels deeply enough about what he is criticizing, he becomes a prophet.

I never write purely for the fun of it. I write as a mathematician uses a sheet of paper for doing calculations: because I think better that way

That's true," Turner said. "That doesn't mean I can't see how it works. Maybe I see things more clearly because of it." He made a face as the soap powder gave him a kick. "The key to in here is the same as surviving out there—you got to see how people act, and then you got to figure out how to get around them like an obstacle course. If you want to walk out of here.

Elwood never ceased to marvel how you could walk around and get used to seeing only a fraction of the world. Not knowing you only saw a sliver of the real thing.

favored on her visits. Up close, it was plain

If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America.

You have to stand up real close to the posters to see the swirls, and even then they're easy to miss: Lila Mae had to have Jimmy point them out to her. Horns, boiling cysts, the occasional cussword inked in across Chancre's slat teeth—they add up after a while, somehow more personal and meaningful than the usual cartoons and pinups of office homesteading.

David Bowie is in every book, and I always put on Purple Rain and Daydream Nation when I write the final pages; so thanks to him and Prince and Sonic Youth.

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Things are happening too fast for her to convince herself that she does not need time to think, to get to the bottom of things.

Step back and the world is a classroom if need be.

A piece of art really works when you see yourself in the main characters and you see a glimpse of yourself in the villains

He was a rube, but he was no tourist.

Someone was high or brilliant or both.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.

Sometimes you've got to go up to a very high floor to see what the past has done to the present.

she wondered if she owned a faint idea of many things, and a strong idea of only a few. As if she had developed an immunity to depth. That she only, now, skimmed the surface.