Quotes About Insight

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

Sharpen that wit of yours anymore and someone might think you actually have a point.

Come on, Cooper, we're going. Cassidy doesn't want to talk to us right now because she's mad I figured out why we broke up.

I'd never before walked out of a classroom with my mind racing because of what I'd learned, and I wanted to savor the feeling as long as possible. It was as though my brain was suddenly capable of considering the world with far more complexity , as though there was so much more to see and do and learn.

I left Jill's party thinking that sometimes it isn't worth confirming what we already know about people we understand so well. Because what Charlotte had wanted that night wasn't me.

You can read books, blog posts, magazine articles (keep reading CODE Magazine, please), and watch training videos, and yet still not understand the impact of a technology in your development life. It's not until you build an application (large or small) using a particular tool, technique or technology that you will really get it.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene

La adversidad es el primer camino hacia la verdad" Lord Byron

No es la respuesta que ilumina, sino la pregunta." Eugene Ionesco

Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever…

The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.

the way to truth was through the exercise of reason and rational judgement.

READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167

Truths are best perceived after looking at all sides.

Knowing why you can't will tell you why you can.

resolved into them.