Quotes about Insight

Sarah blamed her husband for a situation she herself had arranged! It might seem ludicrous if it wasn't so much like what all of us do when we allow our wounds to blind us. That's the most striking characteristic of a blind spot — it can be easily seen by everyone … except ourselves.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.

I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.

An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.

judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person