Quotes About Insight

Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.

Yeah, ESP," Juvenal said. "You know how you do it? You listen to the other person instead of thinking of what you're gonna say next. That's all, and you learn things.

A good investigator doesn't know what he's looking for till he sees it.

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.

We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

If the survivor is blessed with strength and some modicum of insight, then he or she may find the courage to keep moving through the bad times.

Understanding dawned in the Witherspoon's eyes. "Of course, of course." He forced himself to laugh. "You are very clever Mrs. Jeffries. You're onto me.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

The merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears.

I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body,' she said; 'not exactly from living among the hills and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end; but I have undergone sharp discipline, which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy, Mr. Lockwood.  You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of

He little imagined how

All true histories contain instruction;

He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows

It was a marvelous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her

if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed

might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the

I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body ... not exactly from living among the hills, and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end: but I have undergone sharp discipline which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy.

I had changed my perspective by seeing what I wasn't supposed to see.

To shut your eyes is to travel.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.