Quotes About Insight

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Not "Revelation" – tis – that waits But our unfurnished eyes –

And through a Riddle, at the last-- Sagacity, must go--

Tell all the truth but tell it slant- success in circuit lies Too bright for our infirm delight the truth's suberp surprise As lightning to the children eased with explanation kind the truth must dazzle gradually or every man be bilnd-

Because sometimes you just can't see the things that are the closest to you.

Guys aren't so different from us, I think, which no matter how many times I think it will always seem like a remarkable revelation.

I guess she's been like this since her arrival here, maybe even our whole lives, but sometimes when you know someone well, you don't see them as they really are. So I honestly think I've managed to ignore this fundamental part of her personality, perhaps not wanting to see my closest friend in this light.

Because sometimes you just can't see the things that are closest to you.

I close my eyes, wondering whether we are ever truly blindsided by misfortune. Or, somehow, somewhere, in the form of empathy or worry or a premonition deep within ourselves, do we feel it coming?

grocery lists. That was back when I thought my

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life.

Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta.

Learn even from enemies.

Experience has come to be considered the best school of life. The man or woman who does not learn some vital lesson in that school is looked upon as a dunce indeed.

seen through

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.

I feel him near in the twist of me guts. It's something I've always been able to do. --The Reluctant Assassin

Know thine enemy

Het is het niet waard. Neem dat maar aan van iemand die jouw fouten al begaan heeft. - Artemis, tegen Minerva

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor what they seem to be. They are what they are.

A fool cannot be convinced or even compelled to renounce his folly.