Quotes About Insight

Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to inspire and test hypotheses, and these have proven to give insight into social structure and dynamics. Many involve surveys and responses to various questionnaires and are subject to limitations that depend on the role of the experimental teams who have to interact with the subjects.

MARIE As the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another. WOYZECK I saw him. MARIE You can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is unlikely to look out.

I would often rather read what a famous author has cut from one of his works than what he has let stand.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Ein Buch ist ein Spiegel wenn ein Affe hineinsieht so kann kein Apostel heraus gucken.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

No es que los oráculos hayan dejado de hablar, sino que los hombres han dejado de escucharlos.

Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstoßen und es klingt hohl, ist das allemal im Buch?

Sometimes we know a person better than we can say, or at least than we do say.