Quotes About Insight

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Men are often praized for their sagassity, but all the fore sight in the world kant tell a dubble yelked egg untill it itz broken.

The wisest man is the man who is most in sympathy with nature; who follows most closely in her footsteps; yields most readily to her intimations; catches quickest her whispers; sets up least his own will, or prejudices, or notions, against her instructions.

Truth is none the less true because it is undiscovered.

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

All this was clear to me, and I was glad and at peace. Then it is as if someone is saying to me, "See that you remember." And I awoke.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, there is a minuscule difference between those who know a lot and those who know very little.

Every man who knows to the minutest details all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, cannot help imagining that the complexity of these conditions, and the difficulty of making them clear, is something exceptional and personal, peculiar to himself, and never supposes that others are surrounded by just as complicated an array of personal affairs as he is.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Totu?i, acum, via?a mea, întreaga mea via??, independent de ceea ce poate s? mi se întâmple într-un moment anume, ea nu numai c? nu e lipsit? de în?eles ca alt?dat?, dar are un sens v?dit: al binelui pe care îl pot pune în ea.

I may have appeared strange and queer then,' he thought, 'but I was not so mad as I seemed. On the contrary, I was then wiser and had more insight than at any other time, and understood all that is worth understanding in life, because … because I was happy.

Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them.

pero es usted más ignorante e insensato que un chiquillo que jugando con las piezas de un reloj hábilmente fabricado osara decir, porque no comprende su utilidad, que no cree en el hombre que lo ha hecho.

Great common truths are disclosed to man only when he is alone: they are the revelation made by solitude in the thick of collective action.

I don't understand," he said, understanding her.

It all depends with how much judgment and knowledge the thing's done.

He who knows only his wife and loves her understands all women better than if he had known a thousand

Ferreting in one's soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.

Yes, that is true, Prince. In our days," continued Vera—mentioning "our days" as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "our days" and that human characteristics change with the times—