Quotes About Insight

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.

One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read them.

It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.

They asked Lucman, the fabulist, From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Every invalid is a physician.