Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly...

We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true,...

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything–an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren’t in the power of angels to...

It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it’s just a blink.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have.

The benefit of such horizontal interactions – people sharing knowledge across fields – is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you’d have no friends left at all.

I’m not here only just for a visit; but I’m here cuz’ i knew I’m HOME.

Something … made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

They say that some people come in our life as blessings and others as lessons, but to be specific and precise only simple and humble people with the utmost simplicity in their lives only come...

I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God’s imagination.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with...

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can’t penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is...

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would...

An inextricable relationship between the foolishness and the selfishness is like that of an egg and a chicken. No one knows which came first and perhaps even none cares about it.

And as for the vague something — was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? — that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed...

Sit on the train tracks and really believe a train won’t come; lie in your house when it is inflamed and tell yourself that it really isn’t burning; go ahead, neglect all sort of reason...

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over...

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter...

The poet, the artist, the sleuth – whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely “well-adjusted”, he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their...

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social conscience. Funny how fear and poverty will acid-wash your value set, burn away...

Investing in luck squanders skill.

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It...

Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

Follow the light of your intuition, and keep away from the darkness of convention.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly — only varieties of sorrow.

There’s an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony...

A person who is not getting job for long only needs the right opportunity to present himself through introduction ,but he who is in the same job for long requires the right and thorough introspection.

What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he has created to cover his ignorance. These concepts must be destroyed. One tool...

I’m strong on the outside, not all the way through. I’ve never been perfect, but neither have you.

Superior insight into history used to be exhilarating for radicals: if we can see more clearly than the Enemy what is really going on, then we can use this knowledge to advance our values. But...

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.Beginnings happen because there are endings.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.

Hell didn’t make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

If strangers like one’s quote truly ,then it only means that the in-built message has enough depth,breadth, touch and connection with the life’s reality.