Quotes About Insight

If a book is not worth reading twice, it is not worth reading once.

Çok gözetleyen kimse eninde sonunda uyuyakal?r.

PrawdÄ™ Å'atwiej wyÅ'owi? z bÅ'Ä™dów ni? z zamÄ™tu.

There be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances.

La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso mas alto es el peor amueblado.

La poesía le da a la humanidad lo que la historia le niega.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?

Seeing is a vigorous, pattern-seeking process.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Madeleine Cranmere met him in the hall and showed him over the ground floor herself. She appeared delighted to listen to his rapturous enthusiasm, and consulted him on a few points as if he were an expert on the period. He was not, but he knew enough about it to be able to advise her roughly, and was far too flattered by the earnest way in which she listened to gather that actually she knew a great deal more about the points in question than he did.

One day I was showing the sea to a girl who was seeing it for the first time; she declared that she thought a field of potatoes was a far more impressive sight.

Paralysis is the first stage of wisdom.

Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

I do not believe that the God who created all the universe, and who communes with His people through prayer and spiritual insight, would expect us to deny the obvious truths of the natural world that science has revealed to us, in order to prove our love for Him.

Knowledge is never too dear.

Es justo esperar de nuestra época muchas más grandes cosas que las de épocas pasadas, pues el mundo, al ser más viejo es más rico en infinidad de observaciones y experiencias

The sleep of reason produces monsters

Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters)

Reading 'more' is always a good thing, but not the solution.