Quotes About Insight

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Si usa uno specchio di vetro per guardare il viso; e si usano le opere d'arte per guardare la propria anima.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who don't have it.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

A genius is a person who, seeing farther and probing deeper than other people, has a different set of ethical valuations from theirs, and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her specific talents.

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

think men make more mistakes by being too clever than by being too good

Yüzümüzü görmek için aynaya, ruhumuzu görmek için sanat yap?t?na bakar?z.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.

Our actions can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thoughts can be no wiser than our understanding.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

After all, the true seeing is within.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.