Quotes About Insight

You find happiness where you find it.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

satirist Caran d'Ache

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

Oh, no. He was furry, not stupid.

Meg carried a purse when she went to the office or the Market Square, but it was small and didn't hold anything of particular interest. He knew that because he'd looked.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

After all why study the past? Because you may wish to repeat it.

There is something you should know. And the right way to know it is by a cherrying of your mind.

Everything is a naked thought that strikes.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available.

Scientists are aware that all the lab-rat tests in the world, once compiled, can tell us only how lab rats act when tested, and that is how we must begin to view school: all that you can learn in a school classroom is what goes on inside a school classroom.

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

Sarah blamed her husband for a situation she herself had arranged! It might seem ludicrous if it wasn't so much like what all of us do when we allow our wounds to blind us. That's the most striking characteristic of a blind spot — it can be easily seen by everyone … except ourselves.

Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'--and my solutions may not be yours.

I have this theory that actually, after an absence you discover in that first glimpse what you really think and feel about another person. You know things you couldn't know before.

I have this theory actually, that after an absence you discover in that first glimpse what you really think and feel about another person. You know things you couldn't know before

The more you talk about It and the more you think about It, the further from It you go; stop talking, stop thinking and there is nothing you will not understand.

But one consequence of learning anything new is that one usually learns more than anticipated.

Talk is essential, talk stimulates, arguments clarify, speculations which are thrown out to the winds may fall like seed to spring up with a crop of perceptions.

Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.