Quotes About Insight

Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

How can you know what is missing if you've never met it? You must know of something's existence before you can notice its absence.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

If you let yourself go I am sure you are sensible. . . . You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself.

He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

If one doesn't worry, how does one understand?

But let yourself go. You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself. It will be good for both of you.

Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her fertility for weakness. He supposed her "as clever as they make 'em," but no more, not realizing that she was penetrating to the depths of his soul, and approving of what she found there.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant. She missed Cecil's epigram, but grasped the feeling that prompted it.

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself.

She "never exactly understood," she would say in after years, "how he managed to strengthen her. It was as if he had made her see the whole of everything at once.

What does one want with dusty economic books, which have made the world no better, ...

He looked at her, instead of through her, for the first time since they were engaged.

efforts not so much to acquire knowledge as to dispel a little of the darkness by which we and all our acquisitions are surrounded.

I knew it," cried Helen. "I told you so. It is the little things one bungles at. The big, real ones are nothing when they come.