Quotes About Insight

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

A book is a garden; a book is an orchard; a book is a storehouse; a book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts.

A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.

As soon as you enter," he said, "I know. Tout de suite I know. You are tigresse." She smiled her slow smile. This was better; the man had something after all.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

After spending time with Rosa during these past weeks, Suzanne understood precisely why her brother

that was only because he was mere

You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.

I wanted to say that lots of things weren't in the libraries of the wise, including plate tectonics, molecular biology and the complete works of J. K. Rowling, but she'd probably say that I was missing the point.

People are often short-sighted and stupid, right up to the point where they're fucking perceptive—that point usually being the most inconvenient moment possible.

It's not the book that's important,' I said. 'It's the reading

Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Some people are weatherwise, and most are otherwise.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place. You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

There's something in everyone only they know.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.