Quotes About Insight

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them!

One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.

A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people—but not one's own.

The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.

It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.

I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere nowadays...is anyone who's got a bit of ordinary common sense...but I often think that that's the only thing the world really needs-just a bit of common sense.

To see ourselves as others see us!

If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.

Miss Marple always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses can always be turned to account.

There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.

I know that in books it is always the most unlikely person. But I never find that rule applies in real life. There it is so often the obvious that is true.

C'est une femme," said the chef de train again. "Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength." He nodded so sagely that everyone suspected a personal experience of his own.

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them.

It is a great advantage to be intelligent and not to look it.

But yes, exactly that. Think! With thought, all problems can be solved.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.