Quotes About Insight

On peut juger de la bonté d'un livre à la vigueur des coups de poing qu'il vous a donnés et à la longueur de temps qu'on est ensuite à en revenir.

Read in order to live

No lean, como hacen los niños, para divertirse o, como los ambiciosos, para instruirse. No, lean para vivir.

Alors une faculté pitoyable se développa dans leur esprit, celle de voir la bêtise et de ne plus la tolérer.

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Ona, Bütün bu hayvanlar korkunç, dedim. Gülerek, Oh, hay?r! En korkuncu insan, dedi.

He felt better, pleased to have understood, to have caught himself out, and to have revealed the other self which is to be found in each of us.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. —Oscar Wilde

Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.

aprendí que si uno pretende cautivar a la gente debe entender qué piensa, siente y cree.

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.

Pode ser um pecado pensar mal dos outros, mas raramente sera um engano

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

You philosophers are sages in your maxims, and fools in your conduct.