Quotes About Insight

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud .

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

The inner story must be uncovered, personally, by each reader, according to ability and desire.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.

The attempt at introspective analysis... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness.

Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The error is needed to set off the truth, much as a dark background is required for exhibiting the brightness of a picture. And

The wise man profits by the vanity of his fellow-creatures.

Hitler, always at his best when he detected weakness in an opponent

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. What do you call that? Billy thought. That reconstitutitive intelligence, berserker meme-splicing, seeing in nothings first patterns, then correspondence, then causality and dissident sense. Vardy even smiled. "Paranoid," he said. "Theology.

You'd have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it.

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

A book holds a house of gold.