Quotes About Insight

but I have come to see that when two people work closely together on a joint project—two intelligent people, I mean to say—a bond of communication develops between them that can enhance their work. All the while they are jointly engaged on a task, they are aware of, acutely sensitive to, each other's tiniest movements, and can interpret them accordingly.

if you can only learn to see them. The truth had been there all along, only now had I seen

At last, after all the tale telling and all the yarn spinning, after the smoke screens and the trick mirrors and the double bluffs, I knew.

but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood. My

Her presence could be divined in any number of ways by those who had eyes to see. Yet she was not seen.

He knows what reading is. How it takes you.

Then something rang a bell in his mind. What

I was not transparent, that she could not see straight through me

Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?

But there was more. Did she know I had noticed? I had made no outward sign. But I had noticed. Today Miss Winter had said I.

I believe you," I repeated, my tongue thick with all the waiting words. "I've had that feeling, too. Knowing things you can't know. From before you can remember." And there it was again! A sudden movement in the corner of my eye, there and gone in the same instant.

And is it better to know? he asked me. I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back.

The past had no hold on him. Perhaps that's why his vision of the future was so strong. Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly? You

It's complicated' says either I'm too stupid to figure it out, or I'm not in the inner circle for privy information." Not

A whole lot of good my IQ came when it came to judging his character.

It's more about what this training teaches a man about himself than a skill he'll take with him into the groups or into combat," Captain Shields added.

No matter how little a man may add to the fund of human knowledge it's worth the doing, for it's by little bits that we've learned to know so much of our old world.

The writer of a personal essay does not begin with an idea and then struggle to prove her point; she investigates, keeps an open mind, goes wherever the thought may lead, and, in fact, may end the essay having still not reached a final conclusion.

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house.

Oh, wise young judge.

Simon: You always were wise beyond your years. Cassandra: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.

And I suspect that, to the eyes of love, love shows. I knew about you as well as about myself, almost from the beginning.

If you can't find the truth right where you are, where do you expect to find it?