Quotes about Insight

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Goethe is always pithy.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

No invisibles, sino inadvertidas, Watson. No sabÃ

I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.

But a girl always knows.

The opinion of a clever man who has had no experience is really of less value than that of the man in the street who has actually been there.

To a great mind, nothing is little