Quotes About Insight

It was amazing how Mrs. Warmer always seemed to know when a car stopped at the gate. It was not that she wasted time gazing out of the windows, for she got through more work than two ordinary women.

Every great discovery or decision comes by an act of divination. Facts are fitted round afterwards.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

It's good to be clever but cleverness should be muted and buried in the sand. Nobody should be able to detect it but me.

Theology is like rowing a boat. You can only move forward when you are looking backwards.

Books are people,'' smiled Miss Marks. ''In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.

Some people travel all over the world and see nothing. They go about clad in a thick fog of their own making through which no impressions can penetrate.

By this time Miss Lamington knew a good deal about her "boss". She knew that he was thirty-six (which was "quite old" in her estimation); he lived with his mother at Beckenham and travelled to the office every day

She saw, more or less, how the whole thing had happened, for she had the gift—which is often a doubtful blessing—of being able to see the other person's point of view, of being able to put herself in the other person's place.

Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination.

She should know all there was to know - all that I knew, and, what was more important still, she should know that there was no more to know. Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination like Clementina's.

An American travelling acquaintance once said to Peter: "I guess you like to look on at life from a third-floor window." It was such a startling insight into his character that Peter was quite alarmed.

They don't understand anything," declared Mother smiling at me rather sadly. "They don't even know that there's anything to understand. They're like horses with blinkers —they just see what's in front of their noses and nothing more. I'm always terribly sorry for horses with blinkers," added Mother with a sigh.

Life is like looking out of a lot of different windows," explained Malcolm.

When you're very young you take people as you find them. It's only when you've had experience that you begin to measure and weigh.

There's more to everything that what's obvious," he always said. "You just have to look for it.

I'm going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we're doing with data has not changed; there's just more of it.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

Social media provides the modern-day version of mystery shopping and walking the halls.

We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us.

I didn't think I grafted the competitive and strong-willed versions of myself from 'Korea's Next Top Model' to Sae-byeok's character. But thinking of it now, maybe I still have those aspects within me, which helped me understand the role.

One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.

I think sometimes you learn more about someone when they're upset about a situation and how they might communicate versus when things are going their way.

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.