Quotes About Insight

Para conocerte a ti mismo, que es lo mismo que comprender el mundo entero, no necesitas buscar más allá de las lindes de tu propia vida: el florido prado, los bosques inexplorados.

Bug just because I was quiet didn't man I had n opinions. In my head I always had a witty retort.

One has to walk through the fields of knowledge to pick its flowers. Run, and you will miss the best blossoms.

I'm not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person's gaze. You can almost always see where a person has been if you look hard enough.

You learn a lot about your man when you become the mother of his child.

I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a diamond that becomes visible only when viewed through a magnifying lens; normally it is hidden by the brilliance of the stone.

Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help.

Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that—in my humble opinion—allows us to put the present into much better perspective.

Children are excellent judges of character, you know

You're a watchful guy. You know where that comes from? I shook my head. It comes from feeling out of place, he said. Believe me. I know

Why don't you read a novel? There's more truth in fiction than in fact.

Sandor waited. Sometimes the most important work was done in the silences.

Our eyes all have the same mechanism, yet each of us sees so differently.

because I know the difference between preaching and anesthesia.

Failure teaches much more than success.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

We are all blockheads.

Baz?lar? der ki iyinin a??r?s? olmaz çünkü a??r? oldu mu zaten iyi deÄŸil demektir. Ä°nsan?n gözü karanl?kta da iyi görmez fazla ???kta da.

As conversation with men is wonderfully helpful, so is a visit to foreign lands...to whet and sharpen our wits by rubbing them upon those of others.--Montaigne

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Books are absent teachers.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.