Quotes About Insight

When you saw where the truth was, you wanted to get there as quickly as you could, before you lost sight of it again.

Gwyn knows everything: the way so many people do who are underestimated, for a million reasons or one, and therefore have more time to pay close attention.

Solo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo.

Sólo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo, pero yo adivino los tuyos

People give out information all the time. You just have to know who to ask.

Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which are likely to be just as good as any other person's.

Almanzo couldn't understand how Father knew that he wasn't looking at the preacher, if Father was looking at the preacher himself. But Father always did know.

People look, they don't see.

But wasn't that love? Seeing what no one else could?

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.

At her very first attempt Agatha had understood – or intuited – that a clue based upon character has double the value.

she saw imaginatively rather than accurately.

Agatha, I don't love you merely with the glorious eyes of the blind, but I see you as you are.

I know why your gift was deaf to me ~ Dillon

He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

Sociopaths spend their lives studying people, because we have to imitate things we don't understand, or feel, to blend in. It makes us some of the most observant people on the planet.

fear is not truly the same as respect. I'm learning that, at last.

As usual, I was fey enough to see the problem, but too human to fix it.

Then I had one of those moments of desperate inspiration, a brilliant idea born of panic.

It was one of those moments when you can look in someone else's eyes and see your own reflection so sharp and true that it slices like glass.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -- or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.