Quotes About Insight

When you can't see the reason for something, look for the possible result—and ask yourself who might benefit from it.

Jullie kijken ook nooit verder dan je neus lang is,' merkte Cassandra op. 'Ik ga wel.

Cassandra sighed and shook her head at his total lack of concern. "You're obviously not a mother," she said. Horace raised his eyebrows. "Thank goodness for that.

Don't try to aim down the arrow shaft," he told her. "You have to sense where the arrow will go.

I can see now why Halt enjoyed having apprentices. Should have taken one on long ago myself.

Call it instinct, I suppose. Or dumb luck." "I prefer to think it was instinct," Halt told him. "Sometimes I feel we should pay more attention to it.

Erak kreunde. 'Nu weet ik pas hoe mensen zich voelden als ze mij aan zagen komen.

Someday, you'll understand.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

When I started for the head of navigation a friend asked me what I expected to find on the trip. "Some more of myself," I answered. And, after all, that is the Great Discovery.

I think Job and I understand each other better now. It was not the boils, but the free advice!

The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.I thought so once; but now I know it.

I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem...

the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...

to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

I look out at the world through your transparent face...

is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...

Reproving with sharpness thus meant reproving with exactness and keen perception, not necessarily severely.

28.12 But where shall wisdom be found?....

when he heard the voice, he knew for

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.