Quotes About Insight

enough to get someone to tell him the

nonsenses to them that reminded her of

Los hombres podían ser increíblemente tontos a veces, darse de bruces con lo evidente y aun así no verlo. Bien

am surprised your mother has not given you the same advice." Christina stared at her. "She has, she has done for years. I pay no attention. One's mother is always giving one good advice.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

I understand, I am just beginning, I am just beginning to understand

Yes, something about the fabric of life ripping for a moment so you glimpsed things you shouldn't have seen.

or even on the same evening? Five nights ago the Voice had said, "You of all understand me. You of all understand power

The idea was simply that there was somebody who knew everything, somebody who had seen everything. I did not mean by this that a Supreme Being existed, but rather that there was on earth a continual intelligence, a continual awareness. And I thought of it in practical terms that excited me and soothed me simultaneously.

Sometimes you need to be forced to study what's right in front of you.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.

Lestat might be the hero of the Vampire Chronicles, but this one, Louis, was the tragic heart. Yet he seemed at long last to have achieved a kind of peace with the ghastly realities of his existence and the existence of all those around him who outranked him in power but not necessarily in insight or wisdom.

He had learned something from a book which others believed must be learned from doing or practice.

Yes, I see.' 'Beware.' 'Of thinking I understand?' 'Precisely [...]

THE TALAMASCA We watch And we are always here.

She was no devout Christian, but all the religions of the world held a certain sway over her, and within her was a belief that collectively each faith brushed more sand from a great tablet of truth.

The man just stood there, looking at him; and Elliott had the weirdest sense of being listened to, studied. It made him aware of how inattentive most human beings were in general.

What does it mean to write? David, you'll never see this question repeated, because with each page I understand more and more-I see the patterns that have before eluded me, and driven me to dream rather than to live.

Sometimes we are blinded by the translation we want to be true, and not the one that is correct.

The mysterious he was no mystery whatsoever to me.

It was the man of memory and the man of visions that I knew as soon as I studied him.

Men don't know what can happen. They're happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time.