Quotes About Insight

What is the use of studying much when I'm to see nothing at all?

Sanningen finns i allt om man bara kan förstå det.

In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

See much, study much, suffer much.

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

Why do you and I have to hold these memories? It gives us wisdom, The Giver replied.

It will help when you learn them. Fear dims when you learn things.

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

When would he ever learn to stop saying "Look" to a man who had no eyes?

For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.

the history of Denmark has much to teach us all.

Jonas stood for a moment beside his bike, startled. It had happened again: the thing that he thought of now as "seeing beyond." This time it had been Fiona who had undergone that fleeting indescribable change. As he looked up and toward her going through the door, it happened; she changed. Actually, Jonas thought, trying to recreate it in his mind, it wasn't Fiona in her entirety. It seemed to be just her hair. And just for that flickering instant.

He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him... he paused again, and then continued almost shyly, that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you. That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion. Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

to slide halfway to stupid and stop was rare indeed.

Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds. He grinned. Onions don't have seeds, Cordelia. I stand corrected, she said dryly.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities. I

I can tell you truths. I cannot give you understanding. For how can one give what one does not possess? I have always told the truth.

It had the strangest effect on my internal visualizations." She stared at the hypospray with speculative respect. "I may try it on purpose someday." I want to be there if you do. Miles had a sudden exciting vision of using the drug to augment his own insights—instant brains!—then remembered to his extreme disappointment that fast-penta didn't work like that on him. Riva

He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him... he paused again, and continued almost shyly, that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you. That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion. Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves.

Most days it's just stumbling around in the dark with the rest of creation, smashing into things and wondering why it hurts.

I'm not so in love with facts as I used to be. Sometimes, they bite.

My father has been accused of many things, but stupidity has never, I believe, been one of them.