Quotes About Insight

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

En doordat ik met haar ben meegegaan, heb ik gezien hoe haar gezicht veranderde.

I'll tell you a secret. A lot of times, parents are not the best at seeing their children clearly.

He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everything she'd never told him.

Librarians, of all people, understood the value of knowing, even if that information could not yet be used.

It was so easy, she thought with some disdain, to find out about people. It was all out there, everything about them. You just had to look. You could figure out anything about a person if you just tried hard enough.

Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity. They might never come close, but they could approach a point where, for all intents and purposes, she knew all that she needed to know.

Each year they learn the same thing, just in bigger words.

Los dos tenían esa sabiduría libresca que oculta una sorprendente ingenuidad.

Now it was her turn to study Mrs. Richardson, as if the key to understanding her were coded into her face.

And then, as if the tears are telescopes, she begins to see more clearly:

You could figure out anything about a person if you just tried hard enough.

Celya Bowers

Polemik zekalar?n sava??ym??. Zekalar birbiriyle sava?maz.

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.

Nose, eyes, ears

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

La sorpresa es el móvil de cada descubrimiento.

If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people.

Sei in gamba perché sei stata a Parigi", pensavo, "o sei stata a Parigi perché sei in gamba?

Sono libri, – disse lui, – leggici dentro fin che puoi. Sarai sempre un tapino se non leggi nei libri.