Quotes About Insight

I think you will come to Balzac yet. When one has disproved all one's theories, outgrown all of one's standards, discarded all one's criterions, and left off minding about one's appearance, one comes to Balzac. And there he is, waiting outside his canvas tent—with such a circus going on inside.

She looked; and it was as if new eyes had been put into her head.

Dame Salome, with one of those flashes of worldly wisdom which at times emerge from very stupid well-meaning people

There is an amusing sense of superiority in seeing and remaining unseen.

Genius, Layton said, is "the ability—a very rare ability—to see things as they actually are. You are not fooled.

Nemyslím, že p?eháním, ?eknu-li, že naše historie je jedna z nejzajímav?jších – jsme chlapíci, ale ?asto šlápneme vedle.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists.

At the violet hour, when the eyes and backTurn upward from the desk, when the human engine waitsLike a taxi throbbing waiting,I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time

Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

The heart can see things invisible to the eye.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

You show me what someone listens to, I'll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)

The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.

I'm not sarcastic. I'm just intelligent beyond your understanding.

I'm allergic to stupidity. I break out in sarcasm.

A question is not just there to be answered. It is also there to answer.

If hindsight of some women was as good as their foresight, they wouldn't be wearing slacks.