Quotes About Insight

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge.

The movement of the arm, the sound of the voice, and the agility of the body were wanting, but the speaking eye sufficed for all.

Así como es necesaria la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora, así el infortunio es necesario también para descubrir ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas en la inteligencia humana.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.

since like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, he was occupied with seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

God alone knows what is going on within the hearts of men.

he looked up with the satisfied air of a man who thinks he has made a discovery when he has commented on someone else's idea

The eyes of a woman who loves are not easily deceived.

Importa mucho conocer el terreno que pisamos

Dar poate c? genovezul f?cea parte din categoria oamenilor inteligenÈ›i, care nu È™tiu niciodat? decât ce trebuie s? È™tie, È™i care nu cred decât ce au interesul s? cread?.

A woman's eye can read the face of the man she loves, its every feeling of pride, its every expression of suffering; it might almost be said that Heaven has graciously granted to women, on account of their very weakness, more than it has accorded to other creatures.

Servono le sventure per scavare certe miniere misteriose nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; serve la pressione per far esplodere la polvere.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

I soon perceived that the influence of this fact

What's the use of the strongest chisel in the world if it doesn't have an edge? We've got to sharpen your wits, Gully. Got to educate you, man, is all.

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.

she wonders if she has something other people don't. Intuition or hope -- she wouldn't know what to call it.

Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings.

My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes.