Quotes About Insight

the world has enough politicians; it needs more prophets.

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.

It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.

Delusion is the mind's tendency to seek premature closure about something. It is the quality of mind that imposes a definition on things and then mistakes the definition for the actual experience.

I see everything.

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn't make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new.

I said that I wasn't clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn't clever. That was just being observant.

How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

And this shows that intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer.

Sit still long enough and everything will come to you.

And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly.

Everything in the garden became suddenly vivid as if some general membrane had been peeled away.

Then he said, "Christopher, you

Most men wanted to tell you what they knew. The route to Wisbech. How to get a log fire going. David made her feel she was the one who knew things. He

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well

Una cosa es interesante porque pensamos en ella, no porque sea nueva.

And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of being new.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water.

No one knows better than I that it's all here, and need not be explained or interpreted—just seized.

All great discoveries," the elder Marratta had once said, "are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents." At

A friend once told me that I find my stories because I never learned to drive. It's true. I take the bus. I walk around. By being out there—not the driver of my story but the literal and figurative rider—I have the opportunity to see things that I would never otherwise see. I