Quotes About Insight

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

He said books were more interesting than people.

It was love, and only love, that opened your eyes.

Weren't the question the man had wrong, it was his way of asking it.

The world had a way of speaking to you if you let it; the trick was learning to hear.

The story was never the the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

I know it took a lot of courage, what you did. I wouldn't want you to think I didn't notice. But that's not what I'm talking about, not really. Courage is easy, when the alternative is getting killed. It's hope that's hard. You saw something out there that no one else could, and you followed it. That's something I could never do.

He has to come to it on his own.

I've been doing a lot of thinking" "Uh-Oh, Thinking. That's a dangerous business!

It's always the one closest to you, They're always the hardest to read. You lose perspective.

Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes.

Nebunia înseamn? uneori în?elepciune.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

There was no physical tenderness; but she always knew what to do if there was a problem.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Confucius said: "A man who is really wise knows what he knows and also knows what he does not know.

History is experience. If you do not know the past, you will be lost in the future.

What you get out of a poem becomes what you're supposed to get out of it by the very act of getting it out.

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if it isn't actually there; Sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you'll find something. The trick is then to interpret what you've found as what you were looking for.

And lies, of course - It's like astronomy, I always say. Clever fellows, the astronomers, they can tell ever such a lot about something they can't see by the shadow it casts over something they can. Same with lies. The shape of a lie will often give you the truth.

Why fight with an enemy who flees way at the mere twang of our bow

If you cannot understand something, then you have understood it incorrectly.