Quotes About Insight

It wasn't that we started to look at things because there was now a mechanism by which to see them. There first had to be a will to see, buried somewhere inside living things. Without it, the mechanism would never have taken shape.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Regin to Fegley: I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

Yes, wolf, I see all. And by all, I mean some.

Regin: "I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

You wouldn't recognize a good thing if it was spanking your ass.

My entire mind-set about the deed was evolving. Insight: if a guy I had sex with ever carved a notch into his bedpost, I'd tell him to carve one into mine too—and then to go make me a fucking sammich.

I had an uncanny knack for sizing up males—I was a regular "manalyst." My secret? I always went negative, and the guys, well, they always accommodated.

Gabriel followed my gaze. "From up on high, I see things that can't be random—shapes, designs, clues—all the time." I blinked again. From here, those white stacks kind of looked like stars in an inky sky. "Empress, I have the senses of both angel and animal, and I recognize the gods' return.

We always find out in the long run, do we not?

I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

Indeed, no one should see too much of their own history or future.

I am learning there is much more to the world than can be plainly seen.

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

Well, fortunately I know what the best looks like now," she says as she links her arms around my neck.

You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

I'm not interested to believe in something, but to understand the people who believe.

Can't you give me brains? asked the Scarecrow. You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Well, I cannot claim any great experience in life,' the Saw-Horse answered for himself; 'but I seem to learn very quickly, and often it occurs to me that I know more than any of those around me.' 'Perhaps you do,' said the Emperor; 'for experience does not always mean wisdom. - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 89 chapter 11

Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

experience does not always mean wisdom.

but those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge.

For although I feel that I know a tremendous lot, I am not yet aware how much there is in the world to find out about. It will take me a little time to discover whether I am very wise or very foolish.