Quotes About Insight

I suppose there may be something in what you say, though I had never thought of it in that way before.

He made a cryptic statement to Hewitt that entered into Rockefeller folklore: "I have ways of making money you know nothing about.

All along, he insisted, he knew it would fail and had gone along simply as a tactical maneuver.

From the First Philippic of Demosthenes, he plucked a passage that summed up his conception of a leader as someone who would not pander to popular whims. "As a general marches at the head of his troops," so should wise politicians "march at the head of affairs, insomuch that they ought not to wait the event to know what measures to take, but the measures which they have taken ought to produce the event.

He completely misread Rockefeller's psychology.

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Facts are stupid things.

There can be no freedom without order, and there is no order without virtue. Now, that's a simple enough formulation, but it's an insight found not only in the writings of Founding Fathers like Washington or great political thinkers like Edmund Burke; it is also found in a great part of our Judeo-Christian tradition.

All this became evident to us

Harry Truman once said: "Find me a one-armed economist, because every one I know always says, 'Well, on the other hand . . .

Understanding requires a release from understanding.

Tal vez las rutinas nos cieguen y sólo veamos lo que creemos que debemos ver.

Todos estes livros, reparo, estão a mudar-me por dentro. Eu não podia imaginar que isto de ler era como viver.

Es excelente ser viejo. Es la mejor edad, es la época en que el entendimiento ve con más claridad.»

What I do shows me what I am seeking.

Agg'ié nagné 'eggins anyg nein'yié. [What I do shows me what I am seeking.] —Sulagnés, artist from the planet Gnío

Carson McCullers llamaba iluminaciones a esos espasmos premonitorios de aquello que aún no sabes, pero que ya se agolpa en los bordes de tu conciencia.

Elfrida's vision of an old folks' home was a little fuzzy, on account of her never having been in one.

As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.

Tardó en darse cuenta. ¿Cómo iba a advertir el paso del tiempo si su transcurso no le había dejado nada?

There are those who would counter with the notion that women aren't shallow since we're appreciative of what a man