Quotes About Insight

I can recognize any one by the teeth, with whom I have talked. I always watch the lips and mouth: they tell what the tongue and eyes try to conceal. [at the funeral of Percy Bysshe Shelley, according to E.J. Trelawny]

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

You can lead a man to wisdom, but you cannot make him think.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit.

There are no inherent mysteries, only intricate misunderstandings.

It is said that to know you do not know is the beginning of wisdom. But that does not mean that to not know is the end of wisdom.

There is more to life, and less to the traditional explanations of it, than meets the eye unaided by reason.

The younger generation should always learn from the older — even if only from their mistakes.

Half the world knows not how the other half lives.

Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

You can generally tell what processes a man's mind has gone through by what he's studied, observed.

it didn't seem I could know it until I had lived it.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.

There are things We live among 'and to see them Is to know ourselves'.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.