Glenn Quinn Quotes

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Eureka [I have found it]

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."