Quotes About Insight

Situations and people are a lot like books. Always take time to read them, pause, and then read again. Make sure you are not just judging it by the cover.

One is not born wise; one becomes it.

We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own life stories and - especially important - to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.

Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.

You don't get things past librarians.

We all know what we're doing. Whether we realize it or not.

If Gertie van Coevorden had two brain cells, each would be amazed to know of the other's existence.

Avery had sixth and seventh and eighth senses and could tell more from the way someone stood or said see you later than Mel could if she stole the person's diary and read it cover to cover.

Three: Izzy made it sound like Stevie was Wikipedia Holmes, a walking, talking, deducing database that ate true crime and spat out justice.

Knowledge is the heaviest weight of all.

This realization burned.

Sometimes you have to see the bathroom to know the harsh reality of things.

I found out so many things about so many people that I didn't want to know

Luckily, she knew a genius.

I think something is art when it is created with intention. Serious intention. Even crazy intention. And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.

It was a strange glance; she had noticed it before; a glance of simple worship. And it made her realize that there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue

He stood looking at her. She knew that he did not see her. No, she thought, it was not that exactly. He always looked straight at people and his damnable eyes never missed a thing, it was only that he made people feel as if they did not exist. He just stood looking.

Jim, I studied engineering in college. When I see things, I see them.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.

in the wisdom of women the Golden One had understood more than we can understand.