Quotes About Insight

I know that. I've read it before,' 'Is that so? What is it like to read a novel when you know what's going to happen?' 'Once you know the story, you can notice other things.

Quanto impariamo dagli errori? Dipende da quanto siamo disposti ad imparare.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled, "This could change your life." —Helen Exley

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on thorugh by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route''.

He met her eyes and said, 'I mean—some things we've learnt might not make any kind of sense according to what we're used to seeing as sense, but they might work with the bits and pieces of knowledge we have.

it's owing to Roth and the handful of others like her who know

Emotional intelligence is learning how to decipher and channel the brilliance of your heart." 

T. S. Eliot says, "The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

There is meaning hidden in the small changes of everyday life, and wisdom to be found in the shards of your most broken moments.

Joseph Campbell calls the "hero's path." Some of us need a cataclysmic event to find our way toward "the center of our own existence.

If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

I'm not saying they're gods or anything of the kind. It's that we don't know how their minds work. We can't judge them by ourselves.

The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. Maybe my questions matter.

Maybe you and I have to learn how to live with what we saw. With what we know.

The greatest misfortune in the world is to have more learning than common sense.

People could surprise you. Not just their kindness, but also their sudden ability to express things the right way.

What I mean is, this is not just a woman's story. It's what happens to a lot of us, if we are lucky enough to hear that detail and pay attention

I see." I didn't see, though. How do we ever see something about our own self?

we never know, and never would know, what it would be like to understand another person fully. It seems a simple thought, but as I get older I see more and more that she had to tell us that.

naming things can be helpful.

It's odd how the mind does not take in anything until it can.

I need to say: This is the question that has made me a writer; always that deep desire to know what it feels like to be a different person.

The hit-thumb theory.