Quotes About Insight

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

Love may be blind, but this I'll state — it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge.

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words...."

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a penciling.

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

Ideas gathered from reading will always be bookish ideas. Go to the persons and objects directly. Have a painter's eye.

Rendre visible ce qui, sans vous, pourrait peut-être jamais été vu

Make visible what, without you, might have never been seen.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.