Quotes About Insight

Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.

A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists.

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

Everybody could see when something was troubling Christine--the writers kept asking, 'What's wrong with her?' But she never came to me directly to say she wasn't happy. That was not her way.

Wisdom is passionate and heartfelt, giving rise to compassion and love.

This is crucial: The reward for following Wisdom is immediate. The Way to is the Way of.

If you want to predict a person's behavior, identify his or her incentives. Leo

humans, ah, humans I get right every time." And her

Héloïse noticed that his hair, of which a strand had escaped from under his wig, was fox-red, and that he had a boil on the back of his neck. It made him seem more human and less awe-inspiring, which was a comfort.

It is true that William Blake said that "The Road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom," but they didn't have angel dust back then.

Looking closer can make something beautiful.

Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.

Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

May was the best person I ever knew.... She understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

It is seldom that any judge really gets to the bottom of a case. The well of truth is usually too deep for the merely judicial plumb-line.

I've known for a long time it's useless to try to share what you don't understand yourself.

If I had to tell what the world is for me I would take a hamster or a hedgehog or a mole and place him in a theatre seat one evening and, bringing my ear close to his humid snout, would listen to what he says about the spotlights, sounds of the music, and movements of the dance.

You will find what you want to find.