Quotes About Insight

And a Fool is supposed to be wise?

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine. I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes. I understand. I am the same about porcupines.

You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.

Do not pull back from the pain and imagine that makes you strong. Look at it, you dolt! It is trying to tell you what is wrong so you can fix it.

opinions may have truth in them but that truth must be free of opinions.

I know you think me foolish, but then, I am the Fool. You know then I must be Foolish.

How much do you understand?' I demanded of her one afternoon. She cocked her head at me, met my gaze and demanded, 'How much do YOU understand?

Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are.

I have never been wise.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

It was right, what they said: Enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

And while you're 'hearing' all this vital gossip, I might point out to you that no wise man tells all he knows. And that he who carries tales has little else in his head...

It was a simple account of an incident from his childhood. At the time I recall that I wondered why he had written it down. He obviously remembered it clearly; why bother to record it on paper? Only later was I to learn from my own obsessive journaling of my dreams that sometimes the best way to understand something is to write it down." p. 355

The way she spoke, the way she thought, reflected the books they had shared. It was not that she had become wiser; wisdom had shone in her from the start. Now she had the words for her thoughts. She had been like a lantern flame burning behind a sooty glass. Now the glass was clear and her light shone forth.

The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.

It seems a fine tale, to hear you tell it that way, with none of the dirt and pain and misfortune." "It is a fine tale, even with the dirt and pain and misfortune.

I believe you each have something to offer the other. But you'll only value it if you discover it for yourselves.

In a moment all became clear to me. How stupid could I have been?

It all seems pretty obvious now." "It usually is, after someone else thinks of it.

enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head?

That little knife of knowing stabbed into her at every step.

Then I thought about it and wondered if I would ever reach a place in which I ceased finding out how stupid I could be.

If I had met you for the first time tonight, I would have despised you. You put me in mind of Regal." "Did I? Well, perhaps that reflect my belief that there is something to be learned from everyone that we meet.