Quotes About Insight

The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

All I have learned, I have learned from books.

L]iterature is always badly served when an author's artistic insight yields place to stereotype and malice. -Home and Exile

When I see it, this is what I see.

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

sometimes crazy uncles—from Samuel Johnson to G. K. Chesterton.

Ignorance is not bliss; it's a missed opportunity

Sometimes you really want to say Duh, but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backward.

Even when you were completely wrong about something, the journey into your wrongness was always fucking interesting.

None taken, son. I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my arse.

A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on.

The young have everything but wisdom.

You know what my mother always told me? ...That all the answers to all your questions are already inside of you. You just have to listen.

You really believe in the power of books, don't you?" "Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Words are doctors for the diseased temper.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Only through suffering do we learn

When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Learning comes through pain.