Quotes About Insight

The thought beneath so slight a film—Is more distinctly seen—As laces just reveal the surge—Or Mists—the Apennine—

Books are for various purposes—tracts to teach, almanacs to sell, poetry to make pastry, but this is the rarest sort of book, a book to read.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

A double error sometimes sets us right.

Everybody's a little crazy if you get to know them good enough.

M?t ng??i không hi?u v? tri?t lý s? ch? là m?t h?ng chiêm tinh t?i hay th?y bói h? c?p.

Who is right? How do we know? Where is the answer written? Perhaps it's not written anywhere ... or perhaps it is written all around us, in letters so big that we can't see them! Imagine that, we could be walking on a world where the answer is all around us, and we can't even see it!

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Know or listen to those who know.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

When there is an old maid in a house, watch-dogs are unnecessary; not the slightest event can occur that she does not see and comment upon and pursue to its utmost consequences.

The number of things which you do not understand increases day by day.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Though the great things of life are simple to understand and easy to express, the littlenesses require a vast number of details to explain them.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

Perhaps it's because she spends all her time sleeping—she comes and goes just as she pleases in the world of her dreams, she's free to go anywhere she wants. And that gives her access to much more information than people have who are up all the time.

Mi piacciono le persone che mi fanno pensare spesso [...].

you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole.