Quotes About Insight

L'esperienza è il solo insegnante in cui possiamo confidare.

Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy – on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

There's a reason God gave us eyes in front of our head and not in the back...so we can always look ahead.

Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.

Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit. Perhaps it hasn't one, Alice ventured to remark. Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.

You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.

Todo tiene una moraleja, si eres capaz de encontrarla.

You may look in front of you, and on both sides, if you like,' said the sheep: 'but you can't look ALL round you - unless you've got eyes at the back of your head.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Study your wife closely, for the next four-and-twenty hours. If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you!—you have married a monster.

Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

The key holds the truth

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

You must work always to understand your own heart so that it cannot be used against you.

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of 'them' & widen the circle of 'us.

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

I know because I read.