Quotes About Insight

Die Metapher ist weit klüger als ihr Verfasser, und so sind es viele Dinge. Alles hat seine Tiefen. Wer Augen hat, der sieht alles in allem

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Cuando se empieza a ver todo en todo, la manera de expresarse suele volverse más oscura. Se empieza a hablar con lengua de ángel […].

Un libro es como un espejo: si un mono se asoma a él no puede ver reflejado a un apóstol. Carecemos de palabras para hablar con los tontos de sabiduría. Ya es sabio quien entiende a un sabio.

El hombre tenía tal entendimiento que ya casi no servía para nada.

No trates de mostrarte excesivamente ingenioso para evitar que un hombre por naturaleza ingenioso perciba por casualidad que en realidad eres exactamente como quisieras que él fuera.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

We have been better taught than the world. We cannot make the excuses of the world if we fail.

Indeed, it is very far from accurate to say that we see with our eyes. The eye is blind but for the idea behind the eye.

One of the facets of extreme originality is not to regard as obvious the things that lesser minds call obvious,

My muse must come to me on union time.

You might define vision as foresight with insight based on hindsight.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.