Quotes About Insight

Books are embalmed minds.

Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like — then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

Experience makes more timid men than it duz wise ones.

There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.

[T]he person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life.

Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful to say, not if it's just spouting fear.

Fear is the mother of foresight: spiritual fear... temporal fear...

Have cognition before ignition.

Who brings a tale takes two away.

They're not gray hairs — they're wisdom highlights.

The naïve follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above the ordinary.

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

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.

but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.

Man does not make truth. Man, if he be not blind, only recognizes truth when he sees it.

The moment that he knew, he ceased to know.

You must come to read the face of life with understanding.

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