Quotes About Insight

My mom used to say sometimes it's actually about the other person and you just happen to be there. Like sometimes the other person needs to learn a lesson or go through an experience, good or bad, and you're just an accessory in some way, like a supporting actor in whatever their scene happens to be.

Atticus, he was real nice…." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them." —To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

I used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people. It must be, because enough people live here, and they can't all think it's ugly.' He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly see the beauty that's there. In that moment I wish I could see it through his eyes. I wish he had glasses to give me.

I will never listen to ocean waves or view a beautiful sunset in quite the same way again. That is perhaps the greatest gift one can gain by delving into calculus: It is a whole new way of looking at the world, accessible only through the realm of mathematics.

I smile and tell her that all kinds of valuable things are around us - we just have to open our eyes" -Ari

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.

Everything seemed to happen so slowly. Nina watched the spiral of dust tremble its way from the ceiling, wavering in the light, a tiny cloud of white, nothing more. But it was, she knew, enough. She looked at Surinder

It was a very odd concept - that you could become friends with someone simply by examining their bookshelves - but nevertheless, Zoe believed it fervently.

Wie oft wohl muss einer das, was er weiß, noch einmal lernen, wieder und wieder entdecken, wie viele Verkleidungen abreißen, bis er Dinge wirklich versteht bis auf die Knochen? Reicht überhaupt eine Lebenszeit dafür aus?

When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to.

Girl understand each other in a way boys never will.

Just you wait. As soon as you and I are done, he's gonna pull some cheesy-ass move and, like, profess his love for you with a boom box. I'm telling you, I know how guys think.

Yes, of course I know what that means." I have no idea what that means.

IT's a rare thing, to know someone so well, whether they'll pivot left or right.

Let's not force it. We'll know it when we hear it, I think.

I can just tell that you're the kind of girl who does.

My older sister has a way of sounding right.

Anybody with one eye and half a brain could tell what a tool that guy is.

And then there was Jeremiah. When I looked at Jeremiah, I saw past, present, and future.

Christine always wanted to know what was afoot, and any matter on which she was prevented from giving her opinion she took to be going badly.

There are many ways to tell if someone is a bit thick. You can sit them in a room and ask them to push various bits of plastic into a wooden box. Or you can ask them to describe a cloud. Or you can carefully measure the distance between their eyes, the height of their forehead or the length of their arm.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.