Quotes About Insight

The world makes you, and then you see it through the eyes it gives you. Another man sees the same world, but he doesn't have the same eyes.

There's things you've forgotten. There's things you should know.

I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

For all these differences, the basic insight remains: when a critical mass of people in society feel their expectations in life have been dashed, conditions soon build up to a crisis. And in today's world, those whose expectations have been dashed are able to reach out to one another and build communities of meaning in a way that had never been technologically possible before.

Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!

Appearances can deceive the keenest mind. Remember my example, and be wise: When things look simple, don't believe your eyes.

Alle Menschen sind mir in solchem Maße verhasst, dass es mich ärgern würde, wenn ich in ihren Augen weise wäre

That is the usual strain of all your kind; They must have every one as blind as they.

Si vous songez à nourrir votre esprit, / C'est de viande bien creuse, à ce que chacun dit.

Les gens de qualité savent tout, sans avoir jamais rien appris. People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

Our illness is often our healing.

I didn't know about beauty, he had thought. Nobody ever told me.

Hear the soundless sound, and see the formless form. At a glance, read your opponent's mind, and attain victory without contention

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

The feeling that one must be an authority in a subject to say anything about it is unfounded. We are all laymen outside the field of our own specialty,