Quotes About Insight

Go read a book, she would say. Then come back and tell me something you learned.

I only know what I have seen. What I have not seen doesn't make my heart heavy.

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.

I was intrigued by old Frank, with his books and whiskey breath and the hint of hard-earned knowledge behind the hooded eyes.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

It's what passes for wisdom, being ironic and cynical.

His eyes glowed inward as he spoke, the eyes of a madman or a saint.

Sometimes you get a feeling about someone the minute you meet them. You just know who they are, and what they're all about.

I was an answer-seeking machine, in love with what I called the truth, whether it came in the form of little truth particles stuck to the pages of books or vast patterns screaming out from the obvious and mundane.

Sometimes writing is pure hell. I'll write something and look at it in a few hours and say, This is crap. What will I do with my life? I'll never write again. It's a bipolar business, and you bounce back. You become gripped with some new insight that shows the way.

Pain cannot be avoided, and experience with pain is the greatest source of self-knowledge we have.

When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

a good story doesn't just copy life, it pushes back on it.

I never learn anything from listening to myself.

A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.

To think is not always to see.

You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home.

Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.

Eyes can pierce a skull.

I think most people are the same. Until they've gone somewhere.

We can´t know what we haven´t been taught

The eye sees what it cares enough to see.

Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it?