Quotes about Insight

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Perhaps the most essential thing for a continuing education is to develop the capacity to know what you see and to understand what it means. Many people seem to go through life without seeing.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.

Science is not wisdom.