Quotes about Insight

I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.

one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching.

People who are experiencing a problem are the most likely to know its solution.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.

Nothing is mine to claim or to command, But all is mine to know and understand.

He who earnestly meditates first perceives a truth

As evil is the direct outcome of ignorance, so, when the lessons of evil are fully learned, ignorance passes away, and wisdom takes its place.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.