Quotes About Insight

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

He always got this glint in his eyes when he complimented my looks, like he was seeing so much more than just my actual appearance.

Observing is not the same as experiencing.' Li Wei gestures angrily at my stump. 'You sit there and judge others from a safe distance every day. You assume because you watch us, you understand us. But you don't.

I saw him because I see everything. Easy when no one notices you.

Damn, my word of the night

I never saw it coming," I said bleakly. "I thought I was so smart. And each time I talked to her, I dismissed her as some dumb, scattered girl. Meanwhile, she was laughing and countering my moves every step of the way. It's humbling. I don't meet many people like that.

That makes sense," Adrian said "It does?" He glanced at me, a flicker of amusement in his eyes. "Yes, little dhampire. Sometimes you make sense. Go on.

I was no better at reading people than I had been ten seconds ago, but in that moment, I suddenly gained a flash of understanding into the mystery that was Adrian Ivashkov. People didn't believe in him very often. They had low expectations of him, so he did as well.

Rose, you're wise in so many ways . . . and so young in others.

glanced back out to the mall's main section. I saw

Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman— For they are strange and mysterious creatures,and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.

Obedience unlocks understanding.

En realidad, nunca entenderás algunos mandamientos si no los obedeces primero. Obedecer abre la puerta al entendimiento.

Maybe we all dream pieces of the future but just don't happen to know it.

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

The ultimate intuitions and insights will only approach one who lives in his work and remains there, and whoever considers them from afar gains no power over them.

Je est un autre.

Reading brings the world into your heart

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here I am," but to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here YOU are.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are.