Quotes About Insight

But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!

The fact was, that the moment he began to love Alice, his eyes began to send forth light. What he thought came from Alice's face, really came from his eyes. All about her and her path he could see, and every minute saw better; but to his own path he was blind. He could not see his hand when he held it straight before his face, so dark was it. But he could see Alice, and that was better than seeing the way-- ever so much.

the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!

There are many things which a little learning, while it cannot really hide them, may make you less ready to see all at once

The man whose vision is weak, but who, as far as he sees, and desirous to see farther, does the thing he sees, is a true man. If a man knows what is, and says it is not, his knowing does not make him less than a liar.

good common heavenly sense to my people

For the best men and the weightiest questions are never seen in their time, save by the few.

Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them—and as one day we must always see them, only far better—should we ever know dullness? Greatly as we might enjoy all forms of art, much as we might learn through the eyes and thoughts of other men, should we fly to these for deliverance from ennui , from any haunting discomfort? Should we not just open our own child-eyes, look upon the things themselves, and be consoled?

for Wisdom is justified of her children;

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

But now and then there appears a novel which opens up a new world not by revealing what is strange, but by revealing what is familiar.

the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

Good prose is like a windowpane.

She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed

One can be granted intellectual liberty when one has no intellect.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already." ? George Orwell, 1984.

He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly.

Los mejores libros son los que nos dicen lo que ya sabemos

By lack of understanding they remained sane.

Les meilleurs livres sont ceux qui racontent ce que l'on sait déjà.

Era uno de esos ensueños que, a pesar de utilizar toda la escenografía onírica habitual, son una continuación de nuestra vida intelectual y en los que nos damos cuenta de hechos e ideas que siguen teniendo un valor después del despertar.

Los mejores libros, comprendió, son los que te cuentan lo que ya sabías.