Quotes About Insight

Pretty hard to see when you refuse to look. Pretty hard to hear when you refuse to listen.

Aptal olma, o senin için ilk gördüÄŸün andan itibaren bir kalp aÄŸr?s?yd?...

Because I want to know how it works.

we needed to understand what "understanding

understanding cannot be measured by external behavior

incorrect assumptions keep us from seeing the correct answer.

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

Gimme the fucking creeps," Doakes grumbled. I began to appreciate the man's finer qualities. Of course I gave him the fucking creeps. The only real question was why he was the only one in a room filled with cops who had the insight to get the fucking creeps from my presence.

Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

As Deborah had so astutely pointed out, I was engaged and still didn't get it.

But once again, Lily Anne proved that she saw things a little more clearly and shrewdly than her dunderheaded father. As I wrestled with all the concepts of foreclosure and moving and personal inconvenience, she cut right to the heart of the matter with an insight that was sharp and compelling. She bounced three times on her powerful little legs and said, "Da. Da da da." And for emphasis, she reached out and pulled on my earlobe. I

This was not even a matter of putting two and two together; it was looking at four.

Vince looked where I pointed. "Salvia divinorum," he said. "Hey, you think so?

I blinked. I had just had another thought, something very significant; I was quite sure of it. I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was there. I rewound my thoughts, marching them by again at a slower speed. I sat up even straighter in my chair as I scanned—and there it was. I don't know if I found it because I had such excellent posture, but just in case, I sent a little mental thank-you card back through time to Mrs. Parker.

Still, it was a starting point for someone with my special skills—the professional ones—and I pondered it as I worked. It was, after all, an area of real personal interest to me. And additionally, if this had been Deborah's case, she would almost certainly have demanded some kind of special insight from Sick and Twisted Me. So I thought about it, and although I came up with nothing helpful, at least it passed the time.

Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth—it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

THERE ARE MANY ASPECTS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE that I will never understand, and I don't just mean intellectually. I mean that I lack the ability to empathize, as well as the capacity to feel emotion.

have to know, he thought. I have to get out there and talk to people and see for myself. But there's nothing I can do now, and, dammit, I need some sleep.

You must always remember to check beneath the layers of things to find the truth.

She jotted this down in her ubiquitous notebook.

In any conversation, it's often something that seems quite insignificant at the time that gives you the piece of information you're looking for.

if you've got a problem, sleep on it before you make a decision you might later regret. Things always look rosier in the morning.

women are often blessed with more common sense than men.

During the next few days, Harry learnt