Quotes About Insight

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

My brain is very simple. Like when you break everything down. I see things in a simple way. And that simplicity for some reason becomes funny to other people because they don't look at it that way.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.