Quotes About Insight

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Beware of finding what you're lookin

Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

The God knows when to smile.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

"It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there."

El mundo sería infinitamente mejor si los líderes pudieran entender y aplicar las dinámicas que se esconden tras las apariencias que mueven y moldean el mundo.

Big things are often just small things that are noticed.

It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

Grazie a lui mi ero avvicinato per la prima volta al grande mistero, ovvero al fatto che, se mai nella nostra esistenza riusciamo ad attingere qualcosa di speciale, qualcosa di più elevato, ciò accade solo al prezzo di una particolare concentrazione interiore, di una paranoia sublime e, nella sua sacralità, affine alla follia.

It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.