Quotes About Insight

Das Schreiben zähmt das Gelebte.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Heywood Broun

It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. —Niccolò Machiavelli

Instinct's not a superpower. It's made of experience and memory and belief.

For one never thinks of you alone, Cremuel, but in company, studying the faces of other people, as if you yourself mean to paint them. You make other men think, not "what does he look like?" but "what do I look like?

Possibly it's something women do: spend time imagining what it's like to be each other. One can learn from that, he thinks.

I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools.

He thinks, the cardinal would have known how best to manage this. Wolsey always said, work out what people want, and you might be able to offer it; it is not always what you think, and may be cheap to supply.

Sometimes it is years before we can see who are the heroes in an affair and who are the victims.

When no one else could see, he could see: and that is what it means to be a king.

Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you.

I know that, if I took your oath, I should be damned." "There are those who would envy your insight," he says, "into the workings of grace. But then, you and God have always been on familiar terms, not so? I wonder how you dare. You talk about your maker as if he were some neighbor you went fishing with on a Sunday afternoon.

There is a world beyond this black world. There is a world of the possible. A world where Anne can be queen is a world where Cromwell can be Cromwell. He sees it; then he doesn't. The moment is fleeting. But insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

Wolsey always said, work out what people want, and you might be able to offer it; it is not always what you think, and may be cheap to supply.

One can learn from that, he thinks.

Try always, Wolsey says, to find out what people wear under their clothes.

The moment is fleeting. But insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

What kind of persons writes fiction about the past?" - "The kind of person for whom one lifetime is not enough." - Hilary Mantel

As the combatants will always tell you, you really needed to see it, you had to be there. . .