Quotes About Insight

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. You can't worry about them for a minute. They're hopeless.

I've read more truth in fiction than in nonfiction, partly because fiction can deal with the numinous, and nonfiction rarely does.

Katie says, "What do you know that I don't?

The curtains of the past part, and he sees what has been; the mists of the future clear, and he sees an event yet to occur.

have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

all-seeing and all-knowing. Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

You're a scary woman, the way you know a man's mind.

People are books of a kind, each one a story. Sometimes, with no more than a glance or a gesture or a poignant word, they turn a page for you and reveal a deeper truth about themselves than you've seen before.

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 an 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 delusions 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.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

We project our own shortcomings onto others. We say to others what we should be saying to ourselves.

then we fail to be wise.

All I need to do is open my eyes.

I guessed all along that Macy was the one

I was always decoding. I was hyperalert. Being hyperalert is a lasting thing. Being a watcher. Noticing emotional shirts, infinitesimally small tremors that flit over another person's face, the jab in a seemingly innocuous word, the quickening in a walk, an abrupt gesture - the way, say, a jacket is tossed over a chair.

No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a minor scribe unless he has read the great book.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Ludzie, którzy coÅ› powtarzajÄ… dwa razy, to gÅ'upcy majÄ…cy za gÅ'upców tych, którzy ich sÅ'uchajÄ…

Bizim kadar budala olmayanlar? ak?ll? saymay?z.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others.

As he expressed these ideas he followed them with his eyes, watching them gallop away to the place where they made sense.

Nothing sudden is happening here. More is just suddenly being revealed.

I know there are people who believe that wherever you look, all you see is yourself. Episodes like this make me wonder it they aren't right. Dirty Wedding

And that's when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.