Rare Insight Quotes

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusion; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed.

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.