The world is his who can see through its pretension.
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.
It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.
