Quotes About Insight

Maybe grace was all around me, bubbling through, passing under my feet, and I'd never seen it because I'd never tried to see.

Stories provide a rare chance to temporarily suspend being in your own body, in your own life, and to slip into the very existence of another person.

The thing about mistakes is, they become valuable when you learn from them. I

It's funny how mistakes are so much clearer after you've already made them.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind.

A simple yes or no will suffice.

It's not the end of the world, but you can definitely see it from there.

The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old womans wisdom.

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

Philosophy is for those, who feel that they can think beyond their thoughts

No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.

You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties.

Expect stupid. It's everywhere.