Quotes about Insight
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
— Henry David Thoreau
What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
— Henry David Thoreau
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle
— Henry David Thoreau
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
— Lewis Carroll
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
— Samuel Johnson