Quotes About Insight

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

You should read it, though there is much that is skip-worthy.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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.

Books think for me.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.

You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

When you go to buy use your eyes, not your ears.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

A wise and an understanding heart.

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.