Quotes About Insight

Il n'y a rien de tel pour épier les actions des gens que ceux qu'elles ne regardent pas.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Facts are sometimes like a hailstorm. They bombard you; they deafen you.

our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks.

It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.

The light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.

Así como los diamantes sólo se encuentran en las profundidades de la tierra, las verdades sólo se hallan en las profundidades del pensamiento.

There are young men of whom it can be said that their countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them.

had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.

On ne trouve les diamants que dans les ténèbres de la terre; on ne trouve les vérités que dans les profondeurs de la pensée.

When a woman talks to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes dazzle, sometimes illuminate us.

He caught glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripes.

Bien lire l'univers, c'est bien lire la vie.

Asemeni unui mut care ?tie un secret, natura pare uneori c? vrea s? ne spun? totul.

In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

There is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth.

He saw her beauty...but he looked past it. Either that, or he was smart enough to see that she wanted to offer more to the world than a pretty face.

As she neared her destination, she took her glasses off. She hadn't come to the point where she trusted the world as seen through a lens.

It was all out there—the mystery, the beauty; beyond her ability to see now, but there just the same. It was simply a matter of timing and perspective, what one saw.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. —MARCEL PROUST

The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST