Quotes About Insight

The scenery you see when you're driving in a car is completely different from the scenery you'd see if you walked the same stretch of road. In the car you might see splashes of color; by foot, you'd realize they are butterflies.

What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.

Sometimes you have to have the perspective of distance. And sometimes, you cannot tell what you're looking at until it's right under your eye.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege, too.

Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what's in front of us. And sometimes, we don't see clearly at all.

Let me guess, Seven said last night. The first was a rebound. The second was married. How'd you know? He laughed. Because you're a cliché.

In life, perfect pitch is the ability to know someone from the inside out, even better maybe than she knows herself.

Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean I don't. I can't explain it, I can't understand it, and I can't deny it. So I sure as hell am not gonna fight it.

But Edward doesn't even flinch; it's as if he's reading the text of me with some magic internal Rosetta stone that makes him understand what I say is not what I mean at all.

You don't know what you don't know

He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege too.

I wouldn't know what being in love felt like if it hit me in the face

You can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.

Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don't have that you never notice what you do. It's a defense mechanism. Because if you stop hustling—if you pause—you start wondering why you ever thought you wanted all those things. I can no longer tell the sky from the sea, but I can hear the waves. A loss of sight; a gain of insight.

I have this math teacher, Mr. Allen. He said that when you're a point, all you see is the point. When you're a line, all you see is the line and the point. When you're in three dimensions, you see three dimensions and lines and points. Just because we can't see a fourth dimension doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means we haven't reached it yet.

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it and if you didn't, you will never understand.

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing (..) You see, but you do not observe.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind." Trust

Commandment 6: Always try to watch people for multiple tells—behaviors that occur in clusters or in succession.

partner, Dr. Watson, "You see, but you do not observe.

situational awareness," which is a sense of where one is at all times; they don't have a solid mental picture of exactly what is going on around them or even in

Commandment 10: When observing others, be subtle about it.

Our eyes are the visual gateway to the world around us.