Quotes About Insight

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight

Pictures of the corners of life that no one else saw.

What is your future, son of a king?' he heard Torina say. Landen smiled. 'Ask your crystal, daughter of a queen.' She traced his eyebrow with a finger. 'My crystal never tells me what I can see with my own eyes.

a tip-off about the whereabouts

I asked her to teach me, too, but she said it was something you taught yourself by keeping your eyes and ears open, and learning about people — for human nature was the same all the world over; there was so much bad in the good and so much good in the bad, that it was all a matter of weighing up how much good or bad had been allotted to each one.

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

Some knowledge comes to us like a seed.... Then, we have to bury it and leave it alone in the dark. When it's time, it comes up again and grows.

At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers' parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

Ignorance is beneficial when we are aware of it.

A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa. The weakness was there to be seen if one could see it.

Another affordable way to add a drop of loveliness to the world was not to change it but to change how one saw it.

I am simply able to see any issue from both sides. Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent, and although it is admittedly one of a minor nature, it is perhaps also the sole talent I possess.

No matter whether my eyes were open or shut, I could still see it, the crapulent major's third eye, weeping because of what it could see about me.

if you want to live in the city you have to think ahead three turns, and look behind a lie to see the truth and then behind that truth to see the lie.

L'ottusità degli uomini intelligenti, pensò Savita con un sorriso, è la metà delle ragioni che li rendono amabili.

A person can understand almost everything deeply through quotations.

A person is not ready to know if he knows that you know it.

Always listen closely to what children have to say, because really we learn more from them each day.

Ask for advice, and then use your brain.

Beware of the dog that doesn't bark and the man who says nothing.

Don't give me advice. I would rather take money than advice.

Education is something that you know and get which is not in the book.