Quotes About Insight

I had been there before; I knew all about it.

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

there is always more to be learned and noticed, so many characters, so many changes of scene, so many words...

he was not a man of religious habit, but he knew more than most Catholics about their Church;

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

Such a pretty girl- to say such wise things.

She had achieved the elusiveness that gives hidden significance to the least significant remarks.

I can never judge a man while he's talking

Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in the horizon.

We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives-experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded in just that way ever before.

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).

Az ember vagy megért mindent, vagy mindent magától értetÅ'dÅ'nek vesz.

It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

This isn't just an epigram – life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

A la vida se la observa mejor desde una sola ventana.

There is no more dangerous gift to posterity than a few cleverly turned platitudes.

I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I've managed to pick up a good education.

life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person

Sie dachte, ich wüsste viel, weil ich andere Dinge wusste als sie...