Quotes About Insight

This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

The morning is wiser than the evening.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

What runs through a person like water through a sieve.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.