Quotes About Insight

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of you imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns a lesson he can learn in no other way.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down—he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.

It surprises me sometimes to think how much we do know and how intelligent we are.

One lives to find out.

It is ingeniously named, for it looks just as a cross would look if it looked like something else.

Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five hundred seconds off.

I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told

good decisions come from experience. experience comes from making bad decisions.

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

People always more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser

What a dim-witted slug the average human being is.

I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.

Wir sollten darauf achten, einer Erfahrung nur so viel Weisheit zu entnehmen, wie in ihr steckt - mehr nicht; damit wir nicht der Katze gleichen, die sich auf eine heiße Herdplatte setzte. Sie setzt sich nie wieder auf eine heiße Herdplatte - und das ist richtig; aber sie setzt sich auch nie wieder auf eine kalte.

One finds out a great many wonderful things, by traveling, if he stumbles upon the right person.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog