Quotes About Insight

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

Had she insight, could she have pierced the barriers of her highly selective, insular world, she may have discovered that all her life she had been with a visual defect which had gone unnoticed and neglected by herself and by those closest to her: she was born color blind.

Blind, that's what I am. I never opened my eyes. I never thought to look into people's hearts, I looked only in their faces.

I'm only trying to make you see beyond men's acts to their motives.

But I don't get the connection. Dr. Finch put his hands on the table. 'That's because you haven't looked,' he said. 'You've never opened your eyes.

What Boo Rdley did might seem peculiar to us but it did not seem peculiar to him.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view –' 'Sir?' '– until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." — Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Then Jem said hush a minute. I thought he was thinkin'—he always wants you to hush so he can think.

That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me. The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages.

It's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are.

You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

Dear goodness, the things you learned.

until you climb into his skin and walk around it (Lee 27)

Kau tidak akan bisa memahami seseorang sebelum kau melihat segala sesuatu dari sudut pandangnya

Perhaps our forefathers were wise.

she may have discovered that all her life she had been with a visual defect which had gone unnoticed and neglected by herself and by those closest to her: she was born color blind.

When Dr. Finch pulled at his drink, Jean Louise saw his sharp brown eyes flash above the glass. That's what you tend to forget about him, she thought. He's so busy fidgeting you don't notice how closely he's watching you. He's crazy, all right, like every fox that was ever born. And he knows so much more than foxes. Gracious, I'm drunk.

Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from her point of view.

Kamu tidak akan pernah bisa mengerti seseorang sampai kamu bisa melihat sesuatu dari sudut pandangnya, merasuki tubuh dibalik kulitnya dan menjalani kehidupan dengan cara pandang nya

Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults