Quotes about Insight
He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
— William Faulkner
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
— William Faulkner
Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.
— William Faulkner
there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.
— William Faulkner
But I reckon Cora's right when she says the reason the Lord had to create women is because man dont know his own good when he sees it.
— William Faulkner
What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.
— William Golding
I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.
— William Goldman
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why
— William Hazlitt
Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.
— William James
Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.
— William James
As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.
— Heidi Baker
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
— Helen Keller