Quotes About Insight

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

Know thy self, know thy enemy.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

There's no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

Tenía la mala costumbre de asumir lo que otras personas harían o lo que haría ella en su lugar.

Facts don't change. How we see them does.

There are moments. You will know them.

Yet if there's one thing I know with absolute certainty, both personally and professionally, it is this: Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

Then she looked again, and she wasn't so sure; in fact, she hadn't at any time been perfectly sure about Mrs. Peters. She had that shrinking manner, and yet her eyes looked as if they could see a long way into things.

His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.

Once you know what true for you, it'll all get clearer.

Have you ever considered whether Perth's 'dullness' may have inspired you rather than inhibited you?

There is none so blind as those who will not see.

from the worst of experiences you learn the best of stuff.

I think literature reveals more about us than history does.

Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

I want to learn how to look deep to see what people are really like. I want to be the kind of person who plunges past the surface and seeks to know the inner thoughts of the people I am around.