Quotes About Insight

You never really know someone until you have been their friend.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.

Fiction doesn't tell us something we don't know, it tells us something we know but don't know that we know.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. Genius is more than talent.

Hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

We write to make sense of it all.

Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you.

How do I know what I think till I see what I say?

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

Wisdom is knowing what you can accept.

We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most.

Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you. 8 Here is one thing that eventually struck me: March 19, 1938, a Saturday.

He cited me her own remark that she wrote from the protected point of view, the woman's point of view, as evidence that she went through her life from inexperience to inexperience.

This is not a journal", he wrote, "it is not notes for a novel, not a line-a-day record of the trivia my mind dredges up. Call it an attempt to understand." (Bruce) -Wallace Stegner (The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Pg. 436)

And one trembles to be so understood and, at last,To understand, as if to know becameThe fatality of seeing things too well.

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.