Quotes About Insight

In fact there is only your own instinct? Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-

Miss Marple,' said Sir Henry, "you frighten me. I hope you will never wish to remove me. Your plans would be too good.

We never know the whole man, though sometimes, in quick flashes, we know the true man.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

Oh, you may smile, Mr. Quin, but you cannot deny what I am saying." "I deny nothing. In what you see you are always right. And yet—" "Yet what?" Mr. Quin leaned forward. His dark melancholy eyes searched for those of Mr. Satterthwaite. "Have you learned so little of life?" he breathed.

these twitterers can tell one a lot if one just lets them—twitter!

sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge

It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.

so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly." Mr.

But what is often called an intuition is really an impression based on logical deduction or experience.

Me and Moosier here have met before—and there's no man's judgment I'd sooner take than his. If I'm not greatly mistaken, he's got something up his sleeve. Isn't that so, moosier?" Poirot smiled. "I have drawn certain conclusions—yes.

But if I am right," thought Poirot, "and after all, it is natural to me to be right

Queer, thought Henrietta, how things can seep into you without your knowing it...

Soy de esos que pueden oírlo todo." —Poirot

Why must it be simple?' ' Because it appears so complex. If it has necessarily to appear complex, it must be simple. You comprehend that?

You seem to have explanations for everything, Mr. Poirot." "That's his speciality,

Poirot. "You find out

Las mujeres observan de un modo inconsciente mil detalles íntimos, sin saber lo que hacen. Sus subconscientes mezclan esas cositas unas con otras y a eso le llaman intuición.

From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.

He has a kind of genius for going to the root of the matter, and right up to the end no one has any idea of what he is really thinking.

Los ojos ven, a veces lo que se ha querido que vieran.

Ele disse: 'A vida não pode realmente ser resolvida por máximas admiráveis tiradas da literatura moderna. Lembre-se de que a natureza tem os dentes e as garras rubros.

It's really what people call intuition and make such a fuss about. 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. But a grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before. You catch my meaning, Vicar?

I had an idea that you would not. My little ideas, you know, they are very valuable to me.