Quotes About Insight

Dash was a stupid man's idea of how a smart man sounded.

I see you, she told him. I see exactly who you are.

Everyone knows you're beautiful," he'd told her, "but no one knows that you're clever." Clever. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.

Philosophical activity is fully real only at the summits of personal philosophizing, while objectivized philosophical thought is a preparation for, and a recollection of, it.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

The bourgeoisie, in truth, is bound to fear the stupidity of the masses so long as they remain conservative, and the insight of the masses as soon as they become revolutionary.

Karl Pilkington

Gr?matas ir spogu?i: taj?s var redz?t tikai to, kas jau ir tev? paš?.

There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening

Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely idle. He didn't get bored, he just went into a nothing kind of place.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.