Quotes About Insight

where would we be without our ability to see beyond what it is we're supposed to be seeing.

I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.

Yeah, but the thing I particularly like about the word but, now that I think about it, is that it always takes you off to the side, and where it takes you is always interesting.

She came right up to the side of the building as if she were coming round its corner and simply sort of reading the sign because that's what she was, a girl reading the world.

It was now free of obviousness.

Hello, he said. What you reading? Elisabeth showed him her empty hands. Does it look like I'm reading anything? she said. Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

Books. Knowledge. Years of reading. All of which means? I know stuff.

And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see?

Experience is never at bargain price.

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

understood the world as much as possible through description rather than judgment,

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

I've lived a thousand lives just by reading a book

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

because you already know what I mean. You read my mind.

You will receive in flashes a new knowledge in language you won't know.

I just want to say it: I knew what was coming.

If you don't understand me, then it must be experienced.

I have made myself different eyes, to see down the infinite alleyways the universe dissolves into, at each ecstatic footfall

it's as if I've interrupted something that was falling in a straight line from the eye of God

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

I feel that trials do not prepare us for what's to come as much as they reveal what we've done with our lives up to this point.

An aha moment is not a happy ending—it's an open doorway, one you have to choose to walk through.