Quotes about Insight
Without tact you can learn nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.
— Anonymous
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
— Mark Twain
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When there is no vision, people perish.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
— Francois Rabelais
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
— Anonymous
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
— Virginia Woolf
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.
— J. Oswald Sanders
True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?
— JM Coetzee