Quotes about Insight

To understand is to forgive.

Coward," Pablo said bitterly. "You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish." "Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly," said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase.

You did not have to like it because you understood it.

Here's the reason why the peasant is wise. He's wise because he's beaten from the very start. Give him power and then you'll see how wise he is.

This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

You learn in this war if you listen.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

Our definition of wisdom? The ability to see into the future the consequences of your choices in the present.

THE SECOND DECISION FOR SUCCESS: I will seek wisdom.

But I do believe that the more sand that has fallen from the hourglass of our lives, the clearer we should be able to see through it.

What a person thinks is determined by how a person thinks. This is true whether the conclusion at which a person arrives is accurate, safe, and profitable — or stupid and vicious.