Quotes About Insight

Listen to your enemies,' " Bigend said, " 'for God is speaking.

Okay, she said. What are the nodal points? Laney looked at the bubbles on the surface of his beer. It's like seeing things in clouds, Laney said. Except the things you see are really there.

Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.

You are the artiste of the slightly funny deal.

Listen to the fear. Maybe it's your friend.

What I mean is... maybe it's only us...

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge.

What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it.

Thought was a valuable thing, that got results.

En büyük düÅŸünceler, en basit olanlar?d?r.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

Söyleyecek baÅŸka ÅŸeyleri yoktu, ama ikisi de hiçbir ÅŸeyin çözüme kavuÅŸmad???n? biliyordu.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

The main thing was to know the world, every twenty-five years or so, back for a couple hundred years, and if you had that info handy, always there under your belt, then you could figure out the gaps.

myself am often surprised at life's little quirks

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every prior experience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing... who can sense revelation in the wind?

I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. [ The Sick Chamber ( The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why