Quotes About Insight

He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

Guy knows all about women he don't know nothing about a woman.

Bring new eyes to a world even new lenses and presto, new world.

Things that happen are of no importance. But from everything that happens, there is a lesson to be learned.

It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way.

St. Paul has just closed his book. His finger marks the last page read and on his face are the wonder and will to understand after the book is closed. Maybe understanding is possible only after.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

You can't hate men if you know them.

This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not do because it would not be shrewd.

When you been in stir a little while, you can smell a question comin' from hell to breakfast.

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen." ? John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Adam said, "Well, you can keep it warm," and he continued, "Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn't be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb. He saw a time when one man would know only one little fragment, but he would know it well." "Yes," Lee said from the doorway, "and he deplored it. He hated it." "Did he now?" Adam asked.

He saw the world through gray water.

You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don't change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face." "Have you thought of the two little boys, Liza?" he asked. "I've thought of your

Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

It's because I've stopped seeing. When that happens you think you'll never see again.

You can't hate men if you know them.

Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another?

my father became very Chinese then. He said, 'There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar

We don't think you're a bad father. Poor things, said Adam. How would you know? You've never had any other kind.

And then—it was very fast, almost a click in the brain—Adam knew that, for him at least, his father's methods had no reference to anything in the world but his father.

Mes nenor?jom matyti to, ko negal?jom išaiškinti, ir tokiu b?du didel? pasaulio dalis buvo palikta vaikams ir bepro?iams, kvailiams ir mistikams, kurie labiau dom?josi pa?iais reiškiniais negu j? priežastimis. Pasaulio pal?p?n sugr?sta tiek daug sen? ir nuostabi? daikt?, kuri? mes nenorim matyti šalia sav?s, ta?iau išmesti nedr?stam.