Quotes about Insight

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

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another