Quotes about Insight

Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap

The more we know the more we love.

in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.