Quotes about Insight
Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.
— Mark Driscoll
Life is a gift of nature but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.
— Aristotle
Even if our contact with eternal beings is slight, none the less because of its surpassing value this knowledge is a greater pleasure than our knowledge of everything around us.
— Aristotle
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Now, how did you know that I was going to propose? I asked in genuine wonder. Don't women always know? Do you suppose any woman in the world was ever taken unawares?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle