Quotes About Insight

I give opinions, not advice.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that have influenced us.

For he to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. To realise the nineteenth century, one must realise every century that has preceded it and that has contributed to its making. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

I give the truths of tomorrow. I prefer the mistakes of today, she answered.

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

People die of common sense

Io dispenso sempre buoni consigli... non saprei cosa farmene altrimenti.

It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter, who on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

My first impressions of people are invariably right.

Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then

Art is not a thing. It is a way.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.