Quotes About Insight

And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

But for anything deeper, I am not certain whether to know the world and to know human nature be not two distinct branches of knowledge, which while they may coexist in the same heart, yet either may exist with little or nothing of the other.

truth comes in with darkness.

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.

it's easy to be sensible; why don't ye, then? any man with half an eye can be sensible.

Lo más probable es que su larga experiencia hubiese enseñado al anciano esa amarga prudencia que ni aconseja ni se entromete en nada.

The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that weaving is deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it. 76

experience nine times out of ten is merely stupidity hardened into habit.—Well

The Talmud is not only an encyclopedia of law but a work of folk art, a hymn to the Lord rising out of many generations of men who spent their lives in the quest for him. This quest for God, the confident search for the holy in every busy detail of life, is its grand single theme. The Talmud recaptures a long golden age of intelligence and insight, and it is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion.

It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand.

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

Even a fool may be wise after the event.

Three thousand years have not changed the human condition in this respect; we are still lovers and victims of the will to violence, and so long as we are, Homer will be read as its truest interpreter.

he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you.

O Thestorides, of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart." 8

When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker.

You have a mind in you no magic can enchant!

write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Human nature, viewed under an introduction of extended experience, is the best help to the criticism of human history.

For I have seen the cities of men; and learned their manners.

It is the height of folly to be wise too late.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

The cautious seldom err or write great poetry.

It may be, said he, that the wisdom of little children flies higher than our heavy wits can follow.