Quotes About Insight

That was travel, she supposed. A dance across surfaces to see the face of everything and learn the meaning of very little.

Oskar has made it his business to know the full face of the system, the rabid face behind the veil of bureaucratic decency.

Je crois que l'humanité commence là où les gens sans génie figurent qu'elle s'arrête.

La maldad, señor, es el espíritu de la crítica, y la crítica es el origen del progreso y la ilustración.

Die wissenschaftliche Überlegenheit der liberalien Theologie, heißt es nun, sei zwar unbestreitbar, aber ihre theologische Position sei schwach, denn ihrem Moralismus und Humanismus mangle die Einsicht in den dämonischen Charakter der meschlichen Existenz.

Knowledge never hurts.

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.

We cannot see things in perspective until we cease to hug them to our own bosom.

Gerçek anlamda derin düÅŸünme; psikolojik bir hile deÄŸil, teolojik bir lütuftur.

To know when to stop To know when you can get no further By your own action, This is the right beginning!

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

The one ingredient missing in much of modern spirituality is intelligence. Yet, when you examine the religious traditions of the world you find study, study, and more study.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had.

How does one man get the power to make the rest see in themselves what he sees in them?

they spoke of what they knew

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of our own ignorance.

Nothing is more complex than avoiding the obvious

Too much of what is called education is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

It doesn't matter how smart you are, unless you stop and think.

One of the greatest defects of the economies run by political authorities, whether under medieval mercantilism or modern communism, is that the vision and insight that emerges among the population does not carry enough weight to force the authorities to change the the way they do things.

She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her.