Quotes About Insight

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal...

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

We must live and learn.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

A man who had felt less, might.

He understands muslin

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Muchas veces, los hechos hablan tan claramente que no precisan palabras.

Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

and the more I saw, the more I found to admire.

A todos nos gusta dar lecciones, pero sólo enseñamos lo que no merece la pena saber.

La personne, homme ou femme, qui n'éprouve pas de plaisir à la lecture d'un bon roman ne peut qu'être d'une bêtise intolérable.

Those who see quickly, will resolve quickly and act quickly,' said Julia.