Quotes About Insight

Error is a stage on the road to truth.

See, you smart, James. You sit and watch everyone, and you know stuff without having to run your mouth. I'm always running my mouth, which gets my release took away and a bunch of knows in my head.

My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you" (Job 42:5).

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

Recent history takes a while to set. People really don't know what just happened. They only figure it out later.

You have to notice people to be that sure about them.

Here is my lens. You know my methods.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind "is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.

Maria was staring at me like I was wearing purple socks. 'Wow," she said. "That's exactly what music is.' And then she started crying again. But this time, she wept quietly. 'You understand," she said. 'You really understand.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know." Wow.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind 'is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.' Do you believe this is true? And is it also true that you once said, 'The only time white people tell the truth is when they keep their mouths shut'?

Am I defined by what I've seen, or do I define the world by what I've witnessed? O, what beautiful or terrible thing waits around the next corner? Who isn't in love with this mystery?

Sometimes you don't something is true until you hear it for the first time.

You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)

I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.

You go to him for advice? He's only what? Five years old? I swear I own older sweaters. (Tory)

Why are you so sad, akri? (Simi) I'm not sad, Simi. (Acheron) Yes you are. I know you, akri, you gots that pain in your heart like the Simi gets whenever she cries. (Simi)

Asteros's Motto: Most experience comes from bad judgement.

How did you know Cassandra was the mother? (Wulf) I know lots of things when I apply myself. (Acheron)

WE LEARN FROM OUR PAIN

You are incredibly wise. He laughed. Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house.

When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that. Solin, character in The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Then I want you to run all of your words backward in your head and listen to them. Then put on my ears and listen to them again, and then tell me what you hear. -Lydia to Seth