Quotes About Insight

Experience is that marvellous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea. I move through life like a person with one eye, through a landscape that looks flat, but is really tricked out with hidden depths and shallows. It didn't use to be so, but no matter. I navigate the world well enough in my own way.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

Truth is irrelavant to the treading out of brain paths.

Truth is irrelevant to the treading out of brain paths.

truth is entirely irrelevant to the treading out of brain path

Emotions often know better than we do what is good for us, even though not everyone is prepared to listen.

The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.

Leonardo da Vinci, the defining Renaissance man and perhaps the greatest intersectionalist of all times, believed that in order to fully understand something one needed to view it from at least three different perspectives.15

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Knowledge is the arrival (wusûl ) of the soul at the meaning (manâ) of a thing." Qinâlîzâdeh, who considers this the best definition known to him, explains that "when the arrival of the soul at the mean- ing of a thing comes, knowledge of that thing comes, in that the soul comes to it.

And I begin to learn.

Solo estamos en la edad de piedra del conocimiento de los animales y nuestra ignorancia al respecto sigue siendo enciclopédica. Por no mencionar los prejuicios ancestrales.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.