Quotes About Insight

Great wits jump

My thoughts amuse me.

If I told you, you'd only know it in your mind, not in your heart. There's a big difference.

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

knew enough to use their blindness to our advantage.

Mi sgridano perché non riesco a vedere quello che vedono loro.

Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.

One must never disregard a message from the universe.

Light had dawned in the utter darkness.

Mr Mudd, you see but you do not observe.

Dr Freud has many insightful conclusions about the human mind," I continued bitterly, "but when it comes to women, he might do better investigating the male sex's preoccupation with cigars.

Interesting, is it not?" I must be better, I thought: his gnomic utterings were irritating me again.

and Vivian eyed something no one else could see. Then

ratiocination.

You got to ask a street question to get a street answer.

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought.

Other countries may offer you discoveries in manners or lore or landscape; Greece offers you something harder—the discovery of yourself.

history - the lamp which illumines national character...

I suppose writers are cruel people. The dead do not care. It is the living who might be spared if we could quarry the message which lies buried in the heart of all human experience.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.