Quotes About Insight

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.

at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

It was easy to figure out how people ought to behave out in the world if you never went out in the world yourself.

It's so easy to be wrong about the things you're close to. I know that now. I learned that then.

she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

That's a naive comment from someone as intelligent as you are.... You always do that. The intelligence thing. It's as though if you're smart, you will understand yourself.

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

Sometimes I went out into the cornfield and walked between the rows with my eyes closed, pretending I was blind, feeling the stalks reaching out to brush me like a pat on the back.

Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

men were both brutes and blockheads.

we should see what was there, and know what was what, and be much less frightened than by only seeing bits of things that we can't understand.

Of course I did not understand all he said, but I learned more and more to know what he meant

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.' 'Then

No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.