Quotes About Insight

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

There is no point in being annoyed with anyone — the way they enlarge one's understanding more than compensates for the irritation and inconvenience they cause.

We know so little about what goes on in another person's head.

An expert is not someone that gives you the right answer, it is someone that asks you the right question

Incidentally, common sense is not so common and is the highest praise we give to a chain of logical conclusions.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Each play worth seeing should be watched a second time on the faces of the audience.

I remember you saying how much people knew that they didn't know they knew.

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The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

True knowledge comes only through suffering

A mirror may be held in different lights by different hands; and, according to the position of those hands, will the light fall.

Plainly 'Jane Eyre' was by a woman. It used to astound me when sensible people said otherwise.

The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.

The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.

Marshal Reeves, watching me, snorted. "Live and learn, child," he said. "Everybody's worthy of respect.

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear.

Perceval smiled inside, but she would not let her lips curve. No one must see her mirth at an execution-no one except the executed, who would know it without being shown.

I can see the mouse's tail through thy teeth.

Sometimes people said an obvious thing, and what they meant by it wasn't obvious at all.

She hadn't understood the plan until she spoke it.

Her eyes stung with the beauty.

I felt as if I had been navigating a vast space by touch alone, groping in the darkness, and suddenly I could see.

I cannot see as they see, in shades of advantage and degrees of subtlety.