Quotes About Insight

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

One does not have to be raped to acquire empathy for a rape victim. I did not have to kill to understand why others do, but I had to go through some harrowing experiences in order to understand.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

El trabajo del novelista es hacer visible lo invisible con palabras.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Short sentences drawn from long experience.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

I can see with half an eye.

A word to the wise is enough.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.