Insightfulness Quotes

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

I am a magpie. My eye collects details.

There is something in me that makes me see things through.