Quotes about Insight
He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.
— Lao Tzu
"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.
— Charles Dickens
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
— Charles Dickens
Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond.
— Charles Dickens
None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the whirling wheel of life brings the right perception with it. It comes with sickness, it comes with sorrow, it comes with the loss of the dearly loved, it is one of the most frequent uses of adversity.
— Charles Dickens
Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!
— Charles Dickens
That's the pint, sir,' interposed Sam; 'out vith it, as the father said to the child, wen he swallowed a farden.
— Charles Dickens
He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.
— Charles Dickens
Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let hem laugh, and little heeded them; fore he was wise enough to know that nothin ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset
— Charles Dickens
but such is the wisdom of simplicity!
— Charles Dickens
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
— Robert Brault
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
— Graham Greene