Quotes About Insight

I have a good eye, uncle: I can see a church by daylight.

Young in limbs, in judgment old.

As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That, that is, is."

How long a time lies in one little word!

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of bias,By indirections find directions out.

It adds a precious seeing to the eye.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!

God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it.

Some of us will smart for it.

A Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel!I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

In nature's infinite book of secrecyA little I can read.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,And, looking on it with lack-luster eye,Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock;Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I learn more from books than from people

Finally in seminary I saw that Jesus was both a mirror to humanity and a window to divinity, the modest amount given to mortal eyes to see.

I am your own way of looking at things," she said. "When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation

Things you know before you hear them -- Those are you, Those are why You are in the world.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

The farther backward you look, the farther forward you are likely to see," Winston Churchill once said.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.