Quotes about Insight

In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

But it is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

Who knows that about anybody?

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

What was fresh to her mind was worn out to his; and such capacity of thought and feeling as had ever been stimulated in him by the general life of mankind had long shrunk to a sort of dried preparation, a lifeless embalmment of knowledge.

the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.