Quotes About Insight

I don't have very good peripheral vision, that so-called sixth sense people have. I used to have a really good one, and now I couldn't feel anybody come around a corner.

El verdadero método del conocimiento es la experimentación

As Huxley wrote to Osmond in its aftermath, "What came through the closed door was the realization . . . the direct, total awareness, from the inside, so to say, of Love as the primary and fundamental cosmic fact." The force of this insight seemed almost to embarrass the writer in its baldness: "The words, of course, have a kind of indecency and must necessarily ring false, seem like twaddle. But the fact remains.

Lewis Mumford once wrote that somewhere in the nineteenth century it became necessary to know how to read before one could truly see a building.

TotuÈ™i, tot ceea ce pot s? realizeze scriitorii în general este s? ridice în aer un deget sensibil È™i s? presimt? o schimbare a vremii; foarte rar ei înÈ™iÈ™i provoac? schimbarea.

People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

noetic quality. People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

William Blake that, it occurred to me later, neatly aligned the way of the scientist with that of the mystic: "The true method of knowledge is experiment.

William James gave a name to this conviction: the noetic quality. People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

We respect and recognize the deliciously indulgent desire in life but balance that with a specific goal, an ulterior motive to maintain self-discipline and gain insight and self-mastery equally.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

a good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a far broader and more important lesson.

What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

For being the more learned, they are none the less fools.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

You should study more to understand that you know little.

there is nothing in the whole world madder than bringing matters down to the measure of our own capacities and potentialities. How

Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry.

If each man, on hearing a wise maxim, immediately looked to see how it properly applied to him, he would find that it was not so much a pithy saying as a whiplash applied to the habitual stupidity of his faculty of judgement.