Quotes About Insight

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Dreams are hints from the beyond, but they can also be warnings.

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up.

That CIA bitch had an almost supernatural ability to ask the right questions.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.

Knowledge only equates to power if you can figure out what to do with it.

we must never lose sight of that gaze with which we look at things.

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

The man who has not lived in the secrecy and intelligence environment—really lived in it and fully experienced it—cannot write accurately about it. There is no substitute for the day to day living of a life in which he tells his best friends and acquaintances, his family and his everyday contacts one story while he lives another.

David," Magic Johnson said in the eighties, "has this unbelievable gift for seeing around the corner before anyone else.

Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

The world existed to be read. And I read it.

We learn more about people with an attitude than years of talk.

Indeed, the life of facts proved no bad substitute for the facts of life.

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.

That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in.