Quotes About Insight

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.

Life is like a simile.

It is good to live and learn.

The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.