Quotes About Insight

I'm older than I used to be, and therefore I understand things nobody would think of who's young and a hurry.

You are young. So you know everything.

I am not, by trade or character, a spotlight operator. I'm the goober with a flashlight, stumbling into corners and crannies, not looking for anything specific but knowing when I've found it. Courage

I always said there were plenty of things going on here, right under our noses, that we couldn't see, she said, holding out her apron. I don't see with my nose, I remarked. What have you got there?

If we remember that the German word for holy (selig) is the root of our word silly, we may be forced to make some pertinent connections.

Que extraña cosa el conocimiento! Una vez que ha penetrado en la mente, se aferra a ella como la hiedra a la roca.

A man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances, which call forth a woman's sedulous attention.

I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.

Man, I cried, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it is you say.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I

I remember thinking with a queer detached portion of my mind that here was someone wringing her hands. One reads about it and one never sees it, and now here it was.

Knowledge, I suppose, blocked the gates of vision.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

have thus endeavoured to preserve the truth of the elementary principles of human nature, while I have not scrupled to innovate upon their combinations.

An open and capacious forehead gave indications of a good understanding, joined to great frankness of disposition.

How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise.

But intending to understand ten things, you actually do not understand even one. If you know a hundred flowers you do not "know" a single one.

No, you don't get it, thats why I'm telling you. You think you get it, which isn't the same as actually getting it. Get it? (Kakashi)

We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light. -Gaara

In June 2001, George W. Bush met Putin for the first time, famously "looked the man in the eye," and "was able to get a sense of his soul.

It all became clear to me that day, September 3, 2004.

the peculiar ability to see triangles and hexagons where others see only a party.

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.