Quotes about Insight

When you know something, really know something, it tends to stand the test of time.

Every experience is a valuable teacher.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!

The supreme vice is shallowness.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.

There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.