Quotes About Insight

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.

I'm actually not a fan of the word 'woke.' I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Women are so complicated, it's unbelievable.

Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.

The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.

Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.