Quotes About Insight

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The question is not what you look at…but what you see

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Sometimes I would rather get a transient glimpse or side view of a thing than stand fronting to it… The object I caught a glimpse of as I went by haunts my thoughts a long time, is infinitely suggestive, and I do not care to front it and scrutinize it, for I know that the thing that really concerns me is not there, but in my relation to that…

We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. They have only been read as the multitude read the stars, at most astrologically, not astronomically.

Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

It is as possible for a man to know something without having been at school, as it is to have been at school and to know nothing. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones

If thou hast seen all these without knowing what beauty is, thou hast no eyes; if without feeling its power, thou hast no heart.

An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.

as the sister often foresaw what never came to pass, so the brother often saw much more than was actually the truth.

En ello consiste la fundamental diferencia entre la buena y la mala economía. El mal economista sólo ve lo que se advierte de un modo inmediato, mientras que el buen economista percibe también más allá.

All method can do is to awaken the most fruitful associations of ideas already in mind. Hence the more methods we adopt—the greater the number of views we take of any problem—the more solutions will suggest themselves. There is one further reason why we should take as many different viewpoints as possible.

No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see—what I don't fear!

Deep experience is never peaceful.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

I was a screen-- I was their protector. The more I saw, the less they would.

The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

I used to call her, in my stupidity — for want of anything better — a dove

The more you know the more unhappy you are