Quotes About Insight

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.

She knows wot's wot, she does.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Depth answers only to depth .

it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in ill humor and near knives.

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Cada fracaso enseña algo que se necesitaba aprender.

Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond.

Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them.

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

He was nothing to me and I could have had no foresight then, that he ever would be anything to me, but it happened that I had this opportunity of observing him well.

Risero alcuni di quel mutamento, ma egli li lasciava ridere e non vi badava; perché sapeva bene che molte cose buone, su questo mondo, cominciano sempre col muovere il riso in certa gente. Poiché ciechi aveano da essere, meglio valeva che stringessero gli occhi in una smorfia di ilarità, anzi che essere attaccati da qualche male meno attraente.

I want," said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, "to let in a little more light here. You can bear a little more?