Quotes About Insight

A woman never knows what a good man she's got till after she turns him down.

Es inevitablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos cosas a las que ya hemos aplicado nuestra propia capacidad de enfoque.

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

She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her….

a man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

You're awfully good at sizing people up.' Amory denied this painfully. However, he sized up several people for her. Then they talked about hands. 'You've got awfully nice hands,' she said.

she felt that she had learned something, though exactly what it was she did not know.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind...

E remarcabil c? o fiin?? uman? poate s? înÈ›eleag? atît de puÈ›in, deÈ™i tr?ieÈ™te într-o civilizaÈ›ie atît de complex?.

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want me to see.

P?rea s? manifeste, pentru câteva scurte ore, o urm? din acea veche calitate de a înÈ›elege prea bine pentru a putea reproÈ™a - acea calitate care era cea mai bun? parte a lui È™i care lucrase rapid È™i f?r? încetare la distrugerea lui.

A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Sometimes a woman in love doesn't see what's right in front of her eyes. Even a woman with a law degree.

Glimpses of World History

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged!

there something you know and

Maggie didn't realize she was

Y son pocos y sabios quienes no se conmueven ante números, gráficos y porcentajes.

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we've understood it.

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

I believe in the world as in a daisy, Because I see it. But I don't think about it, Because to think is to not understand. The world wasn't made for us to think about it (To think is to have eyes that aren't well) But to look at it and to be in agreement.