Quotes about Insight
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The problem is you don't know what your problem is. You think your problem is your main problem, but that's not the problem at all. The problem is you don't know what your problem is and that's your main problem.
— Neil Anderson
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It does appear, then, that what you find in the landscape of the Old Testament when you 'get there' very much depends on whom you take with you and through whose eyes you view it.
— Christopher Wright
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
— Victor Hugo
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
— Victor Hugo
Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.
— Victor Hugo
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?
— Victor Hugo
As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.
— Victor Hugo
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.
— Victor Hugo
A man's eye reveals his quality. It shows how much of a man there is within us. We declare ourselves by the light that gleams under our eyebrows. Petty spirits merely wink; great spirits emit a flash of lightning.
— Victor Hugo