Quotes About Insight

No one has a patent on the truth. Find yours.

I think market research is extremely valuable when it is used properly. But you must not use it to tell you what to do.

She narrowed her eyes at Ciera. "You know, for a smart lady, you're kinda dumb about some real-life stuff, aren't you?

Mirror, mirror, shining bright, bring more clarity to my sight.

realized he wasn't the one

and friend, for her good advice and infinite

You? Common sense?" Asif laughed.

I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin

To learn from the past, understand the present, and change the future," David said.

It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to live.

So do you anthropologists study primitive people?' 'Yes, but the only primitive person I have ever studied is myself.

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalysed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it.

It was hard to accept that the first man in my life would do things that were to my disadvantage if they were to his advantage. Yet it was a revelation that somehow set me free.

A female writer cannot afford to feel her life too clearly. If she does, she will write in a rage when she should write calmly.

This has been one of my biggest surprises in writing this book: the distinction beetween introverts and extraverts did not come up in any of my previous books about relationships, but it emerged early on a significant factor in this one.

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you

One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

for all I told myself, I didn't just make my living this way, and it wasn't about justice; I seemed to need the chaos other people brought me so I could make a pattern from it, establish the connections they couldn't see themselves. Not from envy, but from need

One of the more curious facts about human beings is that they can spend a day of introspection without discovering what is obvious to anyone who has spent a half hour in their company.

Knowledge is never in doubt. Wisdom is never certain.

If a plethora of learning with a paucity of teaching is an approach to heaven and a plethora of teaching with a paucity of learning an approach to hell, the devil is hard at work in our educational systems.

The greatest writers have no purpose but to incite in the minds of each reader the highest and best thought of which they are capable.

she had no use for men who were so narrow-minded they could look through a keyhole with both eyes at the same time.