Quotes about Insight
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.
— Tim LaHaye
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
— Elbert Hubbard
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
— Thomas Jefferson
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.
— Robin Jones Gunn