Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

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

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

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

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.

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

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

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

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

I like to open people's eyes.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

Sometimes it takes a sudden change to make you realise just how bad things were.

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.

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.