Quotes About Insight

I always keep one cold, just in case," Jake said as he uncorked the bottle and took out two crystal flutes, and Joanna smiled with delight at this new bit of insight into Jake's life—what a wonderful man he was, what an optimist, always to have a bottle of champagne ready, always certain, even after all life had tossed him, that on any normal day life might give him something to celebrate.

hasn't," Kennedy reminded

It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.

one of the truest rules of teaching, he thought. When you teach someone else, you always learn.

If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

The more you read, the more you will find your thoughts and conversation reflecting your reading, and the more you will want to read.

A wise man is always a fool in the sight of those who know nothing about life.

Today valueless Clues are meant for future use.

However complicated you think it is, everything is always more complicated than that.

the highest among us aren't always the wisest,

no true knowledge is ever reached without pain.

Beneath every story, there is another story. There is a hand within the hand - hasn't Allie learned that well enough? There is a blow behind the blow.

You need a window into another world to work out what you think of your own.

the highest among us aren't always the wisest, and the older generation isn't always the best to judge what's right.

We don't have to ask ourselves what they will do if they win. We've already seen it.

Having access to knowledge didn't always mean understanding things. I do not entirely understand people.

In this place—one can never see from one end of a street to the other, let alone men's hearts.

My son should often read and meditate on history; it is the only real philosophy

It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, it is meditation.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.