Quotes About Insight

Children never do understand their own childishness.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy. I have learned from the buggers. You will learn from me.

We never hated Grego," said Olhado. "I should have known," said Miro. "I knew he was suffering the worst pain of any of us, but it never occurred to me . . ." "Don't blame yourself," said Ender. "It's the kind of thing that only a stranger can see.

Orson Scott Card

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

He had long since learned that when somehting unusual was going on, something that was part of someone else's plan and not his own, he would find out more information by waiting than by asking. Adults almost always lost their patience before Ender did.

Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best themselves, and flatter them.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

There is no sin except stupidity.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Only the shallow know themselves

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Wisdom comes with winters

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others