Quotes About Insight

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. 8

For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former. And the world feels this and does so; for the world is often a good judge.

God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars.

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This religion taught its children what men had managed to know only at their most enlightened.

One must know oneself. Even if that does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one's life, and nothing is more proper.

The heart has its reasons which reason knoweth not.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher

Man's greatness come from knowing he wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. (21)

It is better to know something about everything than to know everything about something.

The heart has reasons of which the mind knows nothing.

It occurred to her that the more you looked at less, the more less became more.

I like this advice—how wise people seem when they give us the counsel we want!

i've forgotten more than you'll ever know

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

I wish that for just one time you could I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes... Then you'd know what a drag it is to see you.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time. – Bob Dylan, No Direction Home (2005) Directed by Martin Scorsese.

Sometimes the things that you liked the best and that have meant the most to you are the things that meant nothing at all to you when you first heard or saw them.

Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

Too many people are locked into a limited worldview because their own character keeps them from seeing the true nature of the world around them.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Those who are in the orbit, but nonetheless on the edges, can often be the real discoverers. It was why at times, the journalist, the historian and even the novelist paints the fullest picture of an era