Quotes About Insight

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can.

So you see [the act of teaching] teaches me also, and is as good as a general review of what I've learned, in a pleasanter way than going over it alone.

but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.

Criticism is the best test of such work, for it will show her both unsuspected merits and faults, and help her to do better next time. We are too partial; but the praise and blame of outsiders will prove useful...

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i do not pretend to be wise , but i am observing . . and i see a great deal more than you think

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

for as Father says, trifles show character.

How stupid you are child! He meant you of course. Did he? And Jo opened her eyes as if the thought had never occurred to her before.

La sencillez es el mejor encanto de todo poder.

Perhaps not, I've heard that the people who love best are often blindest to such things.

few are the mortals to whom we give this lovely gift; what to you is now so full of music and of light, to others is but a pleasant summer world; they never know the language of butterfly or bird or flower, and they are blind to all that I have given you the power to see.

interesting things to say. I had just read the line, 'It can

When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters.

She saw qualities in him still invisible to the world at large.

Rockefeller's partners "seldom knew what he was thinking but he always knew what we were thinking.

I remember how fascinated I was with his letters

He later exhibited an unacknowledged dread of death, and Eliza was perhaps the first to intuit it.