Quotes About Insight

We always know more than we think we do. The problem is we don't always know what we know.

Because no one ever listens to the dog.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

You could tell a lot about the soul of an organization by the reading material in its waiting area.

Another maternal insight --- you always dislike about your children that which you dislike about yourself because you understand the danger about that trait. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank, The Hurricane Sisters, p. 115.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

You can write about anything which has been vivid enough to cause you to comment upon it." If a situation has caught your attention to that extent, it has meaning for you, and if you can find what that meaning is, you have the basis for a story.

But I came across a sentence in the book I was reading, HUMAN PERSONALITY, by F. W. H. Myers, which was so illuminating that I put the book aside to consider all the ideas suggested in that one penetrating hypothesis. When I picked up the book again I was a different person.

there is just one contribution which every one of us can make: we can give into the common pool of experience some comprehension of the world as it looks to each of us.

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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

When you are infatuated with someone,like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.