Quotes About Insight

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.

For a man tells you who he is the instant you meet him, all you have to do is listen.

That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing, Frances informs her niece. That's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Seeing has little to do with opening your eyes; it's what you feel inside that counts, it's what you know without anyone telling you.

She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow.

I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery.

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff.

Is there more to the story?" Vincent asked. "There's more to every story," his aunt told him.

It helped to write things down. It ordered your thoughts and if you were lucky revealed feelings you didn't know you had.

I am not an idiot. It's just that sometimes there are things that I don't want to know.

I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.

Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.

What do you have there?" he asked, always interested to discover what a person was reading, for he believed it was possible to see inside a person's soul once you knew which books mattered to them.

sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with.

That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing," Frances informs her niece. "That's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Why don't you prepare the tea for us," Madame Cohen suggested. This was a part of the interview. People did background checks and extensive questionnaires, but you could tell a great deal more about someone from the way they readied a pot of tea.

She had the ability to know what people were thinking, and therefore understood that boys who were rude were usually fearful and that quiet girls often had a lot to say.

Close your eyes and listen, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

It was then that Nathaniel truly began to appreciate the years he had spent alone in his room, the distance from other people that had given him the ability to observe and to feel what another might had also made him a writer.

You can never tell about a person by guessing.

Close your eyes and listen, such people advised, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.