Quotes About Insight

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself—in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience

But here I do see how everyone feels." "I wonder if I like that," said Eddie. "I suspect how people feel, and that seems to me bad enough—I wonder if the truth would be worse or better. The truth, of course I mean, about other people. I know only too well how I feel.

It's hard to see what's good, what's right, when you're in the middle of it.

The soul sees what the eye cannot

My trouble has always been," Mrs. Channing said, "that I can see both sides of every question." "Trouble? That is a gift, Madame; a very unusual gift." Mrs. Channing rose and prepared to follow her into lunch. "I don't think it's a gift," she said. "If it is, it came from a very wicked fairy.

Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games.

dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.

She knew little about herself and consequently little about others.

Those upon whom her eyes rested immediately thought the world of themselves, for it was obvious that she saw with one glance all the good in them to which their own families seemed so strangely blind.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

His face reminded her of an open book that's fallen into a puddle.

You think you know now, don't you? But you have no idea what it was like.

To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.

In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful and useless, how I am nourished and starved?