Quotes About Insight

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

Fas est ab hoste doceri.

Lord Marshmoreton: I wish I could get you see my point of view. George Bevan: I do see your point of view. But dimly. You see, my own takes up such a lot of the foreground

It just shows how one half of the world doesn't know how three quarts live.

It is difficult to understand those whom one does not hate, for then one is unarmed, one has nothing with which to penetrate into their being.

I always advise people to never give advice.

Trouble sharpens the vision.

The gift of seeing ourselves as others see us is, as the poet indicates, vouchsafed to few men.

See with your soul and not your eyes because to dance with the beasts you must penetrate their disguise.

I always thought you had you a bad case of head-up-your-ass-itis. -Kramisha

When Lynette described everything that had happened, the puzzle pieces fell into place from my last vision. Goddess, I hate figurative language.

Heath was still Heath--cute, but not the brightest Crayola in the pack.

Jeesh, who knew teaching was so hard?" "Every real teacher in the world knows that

Every day you seem to know less and less about more and more

The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of sense. I had known him, once or twice, show an almost human intelligence. But to reach that stratum, mind you, you needed dynamite.

I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham.

I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class.

She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair

On broader lines he's like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the place marked Inquiries. You know the Johnnies I mean. You go up to them and say: When's the next train for Melonsquashville, Tennessee? and they reply, without stopping to think, Two-forty-three, track ten, change at San Francisco. And they're right every time. Well, Jeeves gives you just the same impression of omniscience.

I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you know; but give me five minutes to talk the thing over with Jeeves, and I'm game to advise any one about anything.

Mary, in these days, simply couldn't see that he was on the earth. She looked round him, above him, and through him, but never at him;

How sharper than a serpent's tooth, I remember Jeeves saying once, it is to have a thankless child, and it isn't a dashed sight better having a thankless aunt.

He was conscious of a wish that he understood girls. Girls, in his opinion, were odd.