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Insight Quotes

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant "

"The truth must be touched in the way snakes are touched, with a stick."

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."

"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."

"Look back over the past with its changing empires and you can foresee the future too."

"What seems so formless and chaotic turns out."

"A word to the wise is infuriating"

"A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men), that wise men only should be able to commend him."

"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world."

"The rules of common sense are the rules of truth"

"Jesters do oft prove prophets."

"The most profound wisdom often comes in silence"

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood."

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