Quotes About Insight

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Common sense ain't common.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

It's almost been worth this depression to find out how little our big men know.

People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." -Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation.

I become influenced while I'm reading. I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started. Brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates new ones. Every book changes your life.

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do—they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started. Brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates new ones. Every book changes your life. So I like to ask; How is this book changing mine?

was just that she felt you were missing the main point—you were focused on one thing when you should have been focused on another.

It is my habit to buy cheap editions of old, obscure books and see what I can discover there. If the professors of literature knew the sources of my ideas, they would be astounded at the Philistine. But there is a greater pleasure in picking up a small pearl in an ash-can than in looking at a large one in a jeweler's window.

Good books often answer question you did not even know you wanted to ask

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose—electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio—is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation. Mom

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.

One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected at the theatre.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?