Quotes About Insight

With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails.

A veces encuentra algo- comentó Holmes, encogiéndose de hombros-. De cuando en cuando tiene algún chispaso de razón, il n'y a pas des sots si incomodes que ceux qui ont de l'ésprit! ( Los tontos que más molestan son los que tienen ingenio)

That seems to show that somebody knows more than we do upon the moor

The opinion of a clever man who has had no experience is really of less value than that of the man in the street who has actually been there.

To a great mind, nothing is little

By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable.

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Frequently.

How often?" "Well, some hundreds of times." "Then how many are there?" "How many? I don't know." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answered, laughing.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

Hay más en un cerebro que en su bolsillo»

There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world.

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.

I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Oh I'm sure you're right, Auntie said. Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me.

He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.

I had the sudden insight that nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Yo sólo espero que vayas por la vida con los ojos abiertos. Si no pierdes de vista tu destino, todos los momentos de la vida se convierten en una oportunidad para aproximarte a él Nobu

Of course I was happy to sit and listen, but I understood perfectly well that the Chairman wasn't telling these things to me because he wanted me to know them. He was clearing them from his mind, just like draining water from a bucket. So I listened closely not to his words, but to the tone of his voice; because in the same way that sound rises as a bucket is emptied, I could hear the Chairman's voice softening as he spoke.

What standards are those, really? I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.