Quotes About Insight

It is always easier, Madame, to tell a thing to someone who already has a very good idea of what it is.

Un buen consejo siempre será ignorado, pero eso no es motivo para no darlo.

Not so. Voyons! One fact leads to another—so we continue. Does the next fit in with that? A merveille! Good! We can proceed. This next little fact —no! Ah, that is curious! There is something missing—a link in the chain that is not there. We examine. We search. And that little curious fact, that possibly paltry little detail that will not tally, we put it here!" He made an extravagant gesture with his hand. "It is significant! It is tremendous!

It is to show you that it is the eyes of the mind with which one really sees….

Agatha Christie

Miss Marple is not the type of elderly lady who makes mistakes. She has got an uncanny knack of being always right.

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?

Instinct is a marvellous thing," mused Poirot. "It can neither be explained nor ignored.

The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

methods of Hercule Poirot. I do not run to and fro, making

I think now, looking back, that I was perhaps a shade intolerant.

Never to despise the trivial – the undignified.

We do not agree, eh?" said Poirot. "Well, let us leave it. Time will show which of us is right.

Miss Marple, the guest,

That would mean looking at the case from entirely different angle," I said. "One so often has to do that - about everything. Don't you think so?

Some day she will know how wise old men are.

But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

If you would use your grey cells, and see the whole case clearly as I do, you too would perceive it, my friend.

it is often the case that one learns more about a person from their enemies than from their friends." "You suggest that their faults are more important than their virtues?" said Mr. Carey. His tone was dry and ironic. "Undoubtedly—when it comes to murder.

Miss Gannett has all the characteristics of my sister Caroline, but she lacks that unerring aim in jumping to conclusions which lends a touch of greatness to Caroline's manoeuvres.

She went out of the window again. Griselda turned to Miss Marple. "Why did you step on my foot?" The old lady was smiling. "I thought you were going to say something, my dear. And it is often so much better to let things develop on their own lines. I don't think, you know, that that child is half so vague as she pretends to be. She's got a very definite idea in her head and she's acting upon it.

But I did really want to know. I mean, it's interesting, don't you think, to know all about people? What they feel and think, I mean, not just who they are and what they do.

It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea.

I saw," said Poirot. "With the eyes of the mind one can see more than with the eyes of the body. One leans back and closes the eyes—