Quotes About Insight

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Méthode pour comprendre les images, les symboles. etc. Non pas essayer de les interpréter, mais les regarder jusqu'à ce que la lumière jaillisse.

He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness.

Doremus understood John Brown much better.

As she went dragging through the prickly-hot street she reflected that a citizen of Gopher Prairie does not have jests-he has a jest.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. Four hundred pictures all on a wall are four hundred times less interesting than one picture; and no one knows a cafe till he has gone there often enough to know the names of the waiters. These

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

By George! cried the inspector. How did you ever see that? Because I looked for it.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

El mundo está lleno de cosas obvias, que nadie por casualidad alguna vez observa.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much.

My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children." —Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

TIRESIA Medita su questi portenti, figlio. È comune a tutti gli uomini errare. Ma, dopo che ha errato, non sarà stolto né infelice colui che vi rimedia e non resta irremovibile. L'ostinazione condanna alla stoltezza.»

A writer writes what other people only think.

You can never know enough about your characters.

She discovered that the most comfortable position in society was slightly off to the side...

Once you start paying attention to your body's vibes, you'll appreciate how faithfully they keep you informed, not only about what's really going on around you, but what's going on with your body itself.

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But the trouble with asking your subconscious what it wants is, it just laughs at you and says, 'Work it out for yourself, moron.

But I've had a lot of time to think about this, and if you ask me, most people underestimate eyes. For a start they're powerful. They have range. You focus on someone thirty metres away, through a whole bunch of people, and they know you're looking at them. What other bit of human anatomy can do that?

If you spend most of your time turned away from people, you get to know what they're doing without having to see it.