Quotes About Insight

Sometimes, when you look at a person, all you see is the tangle and you miss the weave.

All of that, however, is clear only in hindsight.

Imagination is what convinces us that there's more to the world than meets the eye. And isn't that the first principle of faith?

chess games are rarely lost by oversights but rather by "the failure to apprehend certainties".

the one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

our views of the natural are shaped by our ideas of the supernatural.

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

I rather think he knew anyway.

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

Stanley went on, "highly dangerous, fanatical and additictied to violence'- Blimey Fred, is it your mother writing this? They seem to know you so well

Ich für meinen Teil denke während einer Verfolgungsjagd gern nach. Keiner stört einen, man ist allein und all die Problemchen werden bedeutungslos. Das wichtigste Thema heißt natürlich: "Wie bleibe ich am Leben?", aber auch andere Dinge sieht man in neuem Licht, was zu ganz neuen und manchmal überraschenden Erkenntnissen führt.

Nothing that she had known about demons had quite prepared her for Bartimeaus' personality. Their conversations, framed against a backdrop of fear and danger, remained fresh in her mind. Full of vitality, insight, and above all, an unexpected rapport.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.