Quotes About Insight

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. MARK TWAIN

A good teacher teaches what he has been taught. A wise one teaches what he has learned.

Fear flushes clogged pores of perception.

When you have got a new idea, read Aristotle to find out what's wrong with it.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius.

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.

I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.