Quotes About Insight

Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the surface of the globe, but of him who has lived the deepest and been the most at home.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.

Confucious said, To know what we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

It is the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

I was determined to know beans.

We must look for a long time before we can see.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated.