Quotes about Insight
Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.
— Victor Hugo
Blind is he who will not see!
— Victor Hugo
It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.
— Victor Hugo
In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
— Victor Hugo
Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.
— Milan Kundera
Chi cerca l'infinito non ha che da chiudere gli occhi.
— Milan Kundera
The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.
— Milan Kundera
Looked at from the outside, I haven't experienced anything. Looked at from the outside! But I have a feeling that my experience inside is worth writing about and could be interesting to everybody.
— Milan Kundera
If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.
— CS Lewis
And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)
— Carl Sagan
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
— Carl Sagan