Quotes About Insight

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

It is great cleverness to know when to conceal ones cleverness.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

the wise may be instructed by a fool

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

To be a child is to see things and not know them; then you know them.

Intelligence is not a science.

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn't know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

I suppose if you've always been wrapped in wool, you don't know it's wool.

It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.

A truth may be useful without being understood, indeed without being believed.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.