Quotes About Insight

None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the whirling wheel of life brings the right perception with it. It comes with sickness, it comes with sorrow, it comes with the loss of the dearly loved, it is one of the most frequent uses of adversity.

you'll find that as you get vider, you'll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together.

I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.

It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.

We umble ones have got eyes, mostly speaking - and we look out of 'em.

That's the pint, sir,' interposed Sam; 'out vith it, as the father said to the child, wen he swallowed a farden.

He described it as if he were there, and it was evident that he saw it vividly; perhaps he had not seen much in his life.

He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat.

No one can understand him better than I do. The greatest wisdom that ever lived in the world could scarcely know Richard better than my love does.

Yes, I have a pair of eyes,' replied Sam, 'and that's just it. If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision 's limited.

Hacía poco que él y otros ciento cuarenta maestros habían salido al mismo tiempo de la misma fabrica, manufacturados con las mismas normas [...]. Si hubiese aprendido algunas cosas menos, habría estado en situación de enseñar muchas cosas más de una manera infinitamente mejor

it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,

As he bowed to me in that tight state, I almost believed I saw creases come into the whites of his eyes.

Molyok, legyek és más csúnya teremtmények a gyertyaláng körül röpdösnek – felelte Estella, és odapillantott. – Mit tehet a gyertya róla?

Exactly what I myself had thought, many times. Exactly what was perfectly manifest to me at the moment. But how could I, a poor dazed village lad avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall everyday.

I went forth last night on compulsion I learnt a lesson which is working now .

He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.

Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let hem laugh, and little heeded them; fore he was wise enough to know that nothin ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

tanto se apasionan con sus errores estas hermosas adivinas.

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;

Once more, the mists were rising as I walked away. If they disclosed to me, as I suspect they did, that I should not come back, and that Biddy was quite right, all I can say is—they were quite right too.

but such is the wisdom of simplicity!

Jak nauczy?o mnie do?wiadczenie, obraz, jaki zakochany tworzy sobie o przedmiocie swojej mi?o?ci, nie zawsze zgodny bywa z prawd?

Most people aren't trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding.