Quotes About Insight

Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you." –

Uninformed he might be, unintelligent he was not

he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.

Suddenly a knowledge came upon me.

It is not necessary to travel in order to write good stories; it is only necessary to see, to understand, to reveal.

Information is power.

Dealing with Indians I found them of shrewd intelligence, quick to detect the false, quick to appreciate quality, quick to resent contempt and to appreciate bravery. So much of the Indian's life was predicated upon courage that he respected it above all else. He needed courage in the hunt, and in warfare, and to achieve success within the

Learn from me and avoid the scars your soul and mind will take, let

One of the ways to avoid trouble was to see it before it got to you.

Whatever the book, a reader reads.

A man can get information and education at any age; you can only get wisdom from experience.

The night before there had been much talk while I was at table, and taking no part in it, I listened nonetheless, for a trail is followed not only upon the earth but in the minds of those one pursues or the minds of those whose thinking is similar.

And at night," I added, "a man is too tired. I fall asleep over my books, but we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. Shaping a country is not all done with the hands but with the mind as well.

We who walk the woodland paths know that although all men look, not many see.

knowledge of the

Learn to be in the right place at the right time and keep your own counsel.

Son, it isn't how many books you read, it's what you get from those you do read.

organized study deadens the mind, and that genuine insight arises spontaneously from the individual soul.

successful people, like Morgan and Rockefeller, just had a better grasp of social tendencies than unsuccessful people

We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

So, you just told him all his cards?" East asked when we returned. "And he's going to remember them?" asked West. "You can ask me," my uncle said. "Despite my lack of eyesight, I can hear and speak.

It was just like his beautiful hazel eyes with the black dots in the middle. They could see everything except themselves.

Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.