Quotes About Insight

Behind every statistic there is an individual, there is a story.

Know a man by his metaphors.

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

I have found in the past that what passes for coincidence is usually life's way of telling you that you're not paying enough attention.

Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized that I wasn't as clever as I thought

It never paid to underestimate children.

Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.

it had been a small consecration, a minor epiphany, and no more

gags old before they were told

gazing upon him with eyes that were too old for her face.

And the ignorant, as always, will be wrong.

Ears were blocked to reason, and eyes blocked to goodness.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision.

He looked up into Daily Alice's placid and certain face, wondering why every deepening of these daily mysteries left him less inclined to probe them. "The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise.

the snake's-hands in a story can be the best part.

I was proud of this small insight; I had no notion how close I was to the truth, and therefore I was as far away as ever.

Well, you know, it's probably not the first time it ever happened in the world," she said.

What makes us happy makes us wise

He'll never understand or see, they'll never give him what they gave us, he'll step in the wrong places and look when he should look away, never see doors or know turnings; wait and see, you just wait and see";

The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise.