Quotes About Insight

You see," said Marthe. "I am not here to mock. I have worn out my revenge. You have guided me into a world which has been closed to me all my life. You have shown me that what I hold by, you hold by and more. You have shown me strength I do not possess, and humanity I thought belonged only to women. You are a man, and you have explained all men to me….

Nicholas formed the opinion that my lord Simon was untouched by time and probably by experience.

T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.

My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

I took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord. Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

Mummy, I think I might understand if only you wouldn't explain.

Her faculty for hitting the right nail on the head is almost miraculous – especially as all her blows have the air of being delivered at random. Housekeeping!

If thine eye be single, the whole body is full of light

facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

If I can't make you see the thing in the right perspective this time I'll chuck it for good.

The doors of the storehouse of knowledge should now be thrown open for them to browse about as they will.

Mr. Bunter was professionally accustomed to judge human beings by their behavior, not in great crises, but in the minor adjustments of daily life.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.

Es una lástima que el brillo de los ojos de una persona solo sea el brillo de los ojos de una persona, y que uno no pueda descifrar con una sola mirada qué lo produce.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

All true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of men, in the great solitudes; and it can only be obtained through suffering. Suffering and privation are the only things that can open the mind of man to that which is hidden from his fellows.' That

Did I do anything wrong today, he said, or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.