Quotes About Insight

He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear

As if we were God's spies

It is a wise father who knows his own child.

Ä°yi bir kitap... sonunda seni az?c?k yorgun b?rakmal?. Onu okurken bir sürü hayat ya??yorsun.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

You live several lives while reading.

And so you see, dear reader, the death of my friend Sophie forced me to realize that the whole universe is one big concentration camp run by God -- the biggest Nazi of them all! So slavery in Virginia wasn't all that bad. And it was really God's fault anyway. Pretty good tragic insight there. Think I'll crank some Bellamy Brothers and get loaded!

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

And I think it was a great Frenchman, Voltaire, who said that the beginning of wisdom is the moment when one understands how little concerned with one's own life are other men, they who are so desperately preoccupied with their own. I knew nothing about you and that boy, nothing at all.

Major Eele observed Studdy clumsily thinking. He saw an opportunity to create a pleasant mischief and did so immediately.

the secret to listening to others is to listen to ourselves first?

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

It was then I realized it was all too perfect.

I'd been living around Mama for fourteen years; and a boy can learn a lot about his mama in that length of time.

The Stationmaster, sensing something more than just two dogs and a boy, waited in silence.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

the more opinions you have, the less you see

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed

Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but often pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened

Once in a while we will stumble upon the truth, but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing happened.

Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.