Quotes About Insight

This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.

All of us, when we travel, look at the places we go, the things we see, through different eyes. And how we see them is shaped by our previous lives, the books we've read, the films we've seen, the baggage we carry.

He wears the bemused expression of a guy who knows how bad it can get, who's always looking and waiting for the other shoe to drop.

He's an idiot-savant with whom God has serious, frequent and intimate conversations.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

You know a fact that strikes one very forcibly as one grows older is that some people are intelligent and some are stupid.

Wisdom is the power to admit that you cannot understand and judge the people in their entirety.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

It is, indeed, strange how often persons, living in other respects quite unobjectively, can suddenly become acutely objective about some specific concern of their own.

Women can be immensely obtuse about all kinds of things,' Barnby was fond of saying, 'but where the emotions are concerned their opinion is always worthy of consideration.

One always finds the answer to everything in one's own egotism.

Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.

At that stage of life all sorts of things were going on round about that only later took on any meaning or pattern.

I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.

Remember: we're drowning in information, but we're starving for wisdom.

Information without execution is poverty. Remember: we're drowning in information, but we're starving for wisdom.

An expert is an ordinary man away from home giving advice. —OSCAR WILDE

Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.