146 quotes found
“We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance a...”
“If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.”
“Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to s...”
“Insight is vision through the ‘mind’s eyes.”
“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 all his strength.”
“If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you’d have no friends left at all.”
“Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.”
“Working is prayer for the likes of us,” his master often said. “It’s the way we commune with God.”“Then how does He respond to us?” Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger.“By giving us ...”
“Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”
“Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best way of finding a solution is to let one’s thoughts drift until the right moment comes to pounce,...”
“Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the...”
“Tom's theory of why human beings had yet to receive any message from extraterrestrial intelligences was that all civilizations, without exception, blew themselves up almost as soon as they were abl...”
“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.”
“if you want to be understood ...Listen.”
“They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.”
“Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.”
“I want you to write down your blessings.”
“Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.”
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
“The Widdern — the non-magical world, where science rules and many people believe that magic only exists in books. They’re wrong.”
