Quotes About Insight

I'm your father. That's the great privilege of parenthood; we can comment on whatever we want.

Those we love know us the best. They know all the right places to strike.

Say 'pop.' " "Pop?" "That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass."

More words, bigger hole, Your Furriness.

Why do I get a feeling that you've already figured it out and are now feeding me bread crumbs of data to see how fast I get there?" "Because I am." He probably shouldn't have said that. She leaned forward. "Kinsman Baena, you try my patience.

People don't tell you their secrets, Ghastek. You have to find them out.

She knows our rates.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for unnecessary answers, it not only brings disgrace to the person raising it, but may prompt an incautious listener to give absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the laughable spectacle of one person milking a he-goat, and another holding the sieve underneath.

It is beyond doubt that all knowledge begins with experience.

Denken zonder ervaring is leeg, maar ervaring zonder denken is blind.

To appeal to common sense when insight and science fail, and no sooner—this is one of the subtle discoveries of modern times, by means of which the most superficial ranter can safely enter the lists with the most thorough thinker and hold his own.

I'm trying to tell ya something bout my life,,maybe give me insight between black and white,,and the best thing you'd ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously--it's only LIFE afterall...

We read history in order not to have to repeat it.

Quanto bisogna aver vissuto, per poter scoprire tratti umani nei nostri genitori o insegnanti! E, probabilmente, pensava, l'intera esistenza consiste in questo lento cambiamento di prospettiva.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--' 'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil.

I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.

But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony.

When one is very close to Truth itself, truthfulness vanishes.

Enormous vistas of thought were unrolling in my mind.

you want to understand everything sympathetically. It can't be done. One must just blunder on. Truth lies in blundering on.