Quotes About Insight

But for a moment it felt good to be awful, like looking down on the world from some great height.

Humans are like mice,' Balekin went on. 'Dead before they learn how to be canny.

I am well-practiced at being unnoticed, especially here of all places.

Right then, I feel as though he sees everything—every hope of my heart, every stray thought I've had before falling into an exhausted sleep each dawn.

I have stood apart from the world for so long. That has made it hard for me to navigate being in it, but it has also made me an excellent observer.

The more you learn, the less you know

lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

Nobody outside a marriage can really know what's happening on the inside of it.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

The sun, which sees all things and hears all things.

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.

Too often, we conclude in terms of the known, that which is not yet known.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Truth is less complete in its utterance; it does not put everything on the outside; it allows us to see what is within.

La avaricia, como el amor, posee el don de la visión de los acontecimientos futuros, que presiente y adivina.

Una de las desgracias a las que se ven sometidas las grandes inteligencias es la de comprender por fuerza todas las cosas, tanto los vicios como las virtudes.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table — a fool's notion of history.

Un hombre debe estudiar bien a una mujer antes de dejarle entrever sus emociones y pensamientos tal como surgen.

Reading brings us unknown friends.

Men are like books, often understood and appreciated too late.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.