Quotes About Insight

You never really get caught up in things, do you, Ann?" "No," said Ann thoughtfully, "I don't think I do. I think I'm one of those people who is a born observer. More like a commentator on the radio.

Well, none of you guessed,' said Jane. 'Except Miss Marple.' The worried expression returned to her face. 'Dolly, do you really think there are many like her?' 'Frankly, I don't,' said Mrs. Bantry.

La natura umana, mia cara, è sempre più o meno la stessa, ovunque. Solo che è più difficile osservarla da vicino in una grande città, tutto qui.

Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.

Meu amigo Hastings, aquele sobre quem lhe falei, costumava me dizer que eu era uma ostra humana. Mas ele era injusto. Sobre os fatos, eu não retenho nada comigo. Mas cada um os interpreta a seu modo.

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere, nowadays," said Bob, "is anyone who's got a bit of common sense. I've never been a brainy chap?well, you know that well enough, Ali?but I often think that that's what the world really needs?just a bit of common sense.

Whether they try to hinder or to help, they necessarily reveal their type of mind.

Muitas pessoas não me parecem nem boas, nem más, mas apenas bastante tolas, sabe?

Excuse my butting in on your case," she said with a sudden rather twisted grin, "but I thought you'd like to have the local colour correct." And she marched out of the room.

Had I been looking at the case upside down?

The Lacedemonians are not wont to ask how many the enemy are, but where they are.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

I'm taken over by this trunk. I'm practically living inside it. When I read the journals I feel as if I'm there, a hundred years ago. I'm putting together the whole picture and I know everything that happened and wasn't written down - Amal, p. 133

breakthroughs occur only when one is able to view things in a completely different, new way.

People aren't stupid. They're ignorant.

Unless you become a big picture thinker, you will always stay where you are.

Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb.

Unfortunately, ..., all too often a joke tells the truth.

Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. The kind of intelligence that's more attractive than physical beauty.

Unless you find yourself in a book, you have a hard time finding anybody else.

Readers are made not born.