Quotes About Insight

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

Logic is one thing, and common sense another.

Love blinds the eyes and only regret will open them.

Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.

...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...

Dawn is a friend of the muses.

Night is the mother of Councels.

Philosophy is common sense in a dress suit.

A poet looks at the world somewhat as a man looks at a woman.

The eye is the only note-book of the true poet...

Some knees bend only under the load of a heavy heart; some eyes are opened only after the head is bowed.

Fortune Cookies. — Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

A proverb is much light condensed in one flash.

What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech.

Proverbs are the literature of reason.

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass.

A man's life is often builded on a proverb.

The maxims of men disclose their hearts.

A proverb is an exploding atom of wisdom.

I need one of those baby monitors for my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

But I can't forbear quoting the Advice of a great Author...