Quotes About Insight

If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.

Stupidity is not another way of knowing things.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

Calvin: I read this library book you got me. Calvin's Mom: What did you think of it? Calvin: It really made me see things differently. It's given me a lot to think about. Calvin's Mom: I'm glad you enjoyed it. Calvin: It's complicating my life. Don't get me any more.

I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up.

Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain.

For I, too, am a serious student of cartoons.

You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.

As we cannot be universal by knowing everything there is to know about everything, we must know a little about everything, because it is much better to know something about everything than everything about something. Such universality is the finest. It would be still better if we could have both together, but, if a choice must be made, this is the one to choose. The world knows this and does so, for the world is often a good judge.

Too much clarity darkens.

It is better to know something about everything then everything about something

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Ultimul lucru pe care-l afl?m când alc?tuim o lucrare este cu ce ar fi trebuit s? începem.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. It is but feeble if it does not see so far as to know this.