Quotes About Insight

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Know all and you will pardon all.

The more people know, the more they forgive.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.

We should learn by reflection on the misfortunes of others that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.