Quotes About Insight

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life.

What most people call truth is merely the surface, and under it lies a great depth of truth that they do not perceive.

But sometimes I knew things with my heart that my mind could not explain.

the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognise, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years.

I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it, what they wanted, what they hoped for—more than I could learn from books alone.

The past was a trove of hard-won wisdom.

I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood.

Intuition was the highest form of knowledge, antecedent to all teaching, not reliant on reasoning.

His sense of smell alone brought him more information

Intuition is the highest form of knowledge.

the nature of the world when you dared to see it clearly: a place of mystery in which extraordinary coincidences were more common than they seemed.

was learned from experience, what was intuitively known, and matters of instinct coded in the genes.

Plain, homely women like you and me will never lead a glamorous life, never go to exotic places. So books have a special value to us. We can experience most everything vicariously, through books. This isn't bad. Living through books is even better than having friends and knowing... men.

Frequently, our mistakes turn out to suggest meaning beyond the fact that we have made an error.

should know. Though

Most likely, she's witnessing not an escape, but a penetration.

clairvoyance

He knew what he didn't know. Dorian Purcell, on the other hand, seemed not to know what he didn't know.

Not as bad as a Sherpa

Sometimes truth was elusive...