Quotes About Insight

I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

Common sense is very uncommon.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

I do not seek. I find.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Any fool can criticize, and many of them do.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

You can only predict things after they've happened.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.