Quotes About Insight

Not for the first time, Tom reflected there was no understanding women. It wasn't that they were illogical. Just the opposite. Their logic was of a higher order, too complex and advanced to submit to a complete proof calculus. Women assigned mysterious values to details a man would overlook, and were able to draw piercing conclusions about his innermost secrets.

Beatrix looked at Christopher with an arrested expression. His smile faded, and he found himself staring into her blue-on-blue eyes. They were astonishingly direct and lucid... the eyes of a vagabond angel. One had the sense that no matter what she beheld of the sinful world, she would never be jaded. She reminded him that the things he had seen and done could not be polished away like tarnish from silver.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

boundary blindness

Owen, however, saw past Luna's ordinary armor. He recognized a feral quality in her. He saw a girl roiling with secrets. And he would have paid good money to know a few of them.

He tried to remember, to repeat, to imprint in his brain, Luna's parting words of advice: People don't know what you think they know.

Emily Dickinson calls it 'truth told slant,

Conclusions were necessary and she had come up with them.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

The very place in scripture where we so often stop reading is precisely the place we need to deeply listen.

Oh. So that's what that is. Huh. Problem solved, I guess.

We often fail to notice things that we are not expecting.

Maybe wisdom tends to latch onto itself when it finds itself in various places.

This is all true. So much so that the simplicity of the words feels about as right as a sunrise over mountains or the gasp of knowing that occurs when you realize for the first time that you understood something you'd been trying to grasp for years, and the difficulty wasn't in its complexity but its simplicity. There was something you'd been missing, something you didn't even know to look for.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

To understand everything is to forgive.

However, a very wise man of my acquaintance once said: 'I just had this dumped on me. Brilliance takes time.

Some people wouldn't recognize the truth if it bit 'em and had 'em for breakfast.

He knew what he did because all Venetians knew it.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

Some of the hardest things you go through will teach you the most.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't.

No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences