Quotes About Insight

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I heard the little bird say so.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

An old head upon young shoulders.

The head is always the dupe of the heart.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Teaching was the best way to learn.

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

He that jokes confesses.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.