Quotes About Insight

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgement.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

In a great mistake.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.