Quotes About Insight

The necessity for an observer makes perfect observation impossible.

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

The wisdom or counsel of God is deep water and is often a mystery to the natural mind.

Only through the mind can the world be seen. Only through the heart can it be understood.

What you know about women," replied Maude, "could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there'd still be room for the Lord's Prayer. For all your

What you know about women,' replied Maude, 'could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there'd still be room for the Lord's Prayer.

What you know about women,' replied Maude, 'could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there'd still be room for the Lord's Prayer. For all your great flirtations and seductions, for all your tarts, whores, girlfriends and wives, you've really learned nothing about us over the years, have you?

Es muy bueno fingiendo ser alguien que no es -le comenté después a Zoya en el vestíbulo, cuando esperábamos para felicitarlo, sin saber muy bien si con esas palabras pretendía o no halagarlo-. No sé cómo lo hace. - Yo sí -repuso ella, sorprendiéndome.

Que uno contemple el cielo por la noche no lo convierte en astrónomo.

that girl has no more sense than a postage stamp.

La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

I can answer the question, but am I bright enough to ask it?")

It's the beginning of wisdom when you admit you've gone astray.

What a wise man can do, that can't be done by someone who's merely clever, is make a right judgement in an unprecedented situation. ?

A little thing, lasting only a second, and the odds were a thousand to one that I might have had my eyes on my cards at the time and missed it. But I didn't, and, in a flash, the air seemed to clear. Some shadow lifted from my brain, and I was looking at the three men with full and absolute recognition.

So Christian went on his way, saying: Here have I seen things rare and profitable; Things pleasant, dreadful; things to make me stable In what I have begun to take in hand: Then let me think on them, and understand Wherefore they showed me where; and let me be Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee.

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I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else.

A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.