Quotes about Insight

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

For let it go how it will, he said, God speaks in the least of creatures. The kid thought him to mean birds or things that crawl but the expriest, watching, his head slightly cocked, said: No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life. Is that right? Aye.

Too soon old and too late smart. You dont know anything till it gets here. You told me once that maybe the end of the road has nothing to do with the road. Maybe it doesnt even know there's been a road. You ready?

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.

The actual process of thinking -in any discipline- is an unconscious affair...The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access.

Had you noticed them before? he asked. No, never before, she replied. And now you will always see them, he said.

Put the lights out, we shall see better.

If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.