Quotes About Insight

Why?" A simple question unlocks best

A simple question unlocks best.

shall." I think I finally guessed then what

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

For it is said, one may ask of the Elderlings, but what they answer may not be the question you ask, but the one you should have asked.

I have always been more curious than wise. Yet any wisdom I have ever gained has come to me from my curiosity. So I have never learned to turn away from it.

Web, what do you want of me?" I asked him at last. "Only to make you think," he answered soothingly. "Not to make you angry, though I seem to excel at that. Or perhaps your anger is always there, festering inside you, and I am the knife that lances the boil and lets it burst forth.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

She seemed to have eyes like a fly, with multiple sections that could see sideways and backwards, and into things that hadn't even happened yet. Such as into Barry Hollis's desk where he had a packet of cigarettes and a copy of Playboy.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened".

the role of land as renewable resource of knowledge and ecological insight

It's very simple -- I got smacked up the side of the head and all your bullshit fell out and some sense seeped in.

There's a lot more to you than meets the eye." "There's more to everyone than meets the eye," Clay said. "I hope you'll forgive me—

to transfer her rage after all. She wanted David Price dead. And then, for the first time, she truly understood Griffin. And then, for the first time, she had an inkling of an idea. The front door opened and shut. Laurie, who had gone out to get the mail, walked into the family room, sifting through the pile. She came

experience and the advantage of being the one

study. Something you can write up for the American Society of Shrinks—otherwise known

That's the beauty of retrospect. One sees so much more clearly.

I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

The only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

You can never see anything clearly when you're running.

The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.

That's what books do, isn't it? That's why I love to read. They bring us closer to ourselves.