Quotes about Insight

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

Ordinary people knock on doors, warriors break them down, but sages enter through the window.

Pearls of wisdom are better than necklaces of diamonds.

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

You need several eyes to see an opportunity, many eyes to see wisdom, and countless eyes to see God.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It's the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.