Quotes About Insight

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

The wisest of the wise may err.

There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Suffering brings experience.

Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

A word in season is most precious.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

A camel never sees its own hump.

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

"This affair must all be unraveled from within." He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead. "These little gray cells. It is 'up to them'—as you say over here."

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them.