Quotes About Insight

regardless of their levels of sophistication and learning.

You cannot look at the future by naive projection of the past.

In the end it is those who derive consequences and seize the importance of the ideas, seeing their real value, who win the day. They are the ones who can talk about the subject.

I want to be broadly right rather than precisely wrong.

Never ask people what they want, or where they want to go, or where they think they should go, or, worse, what they think they will desire tomorrow.

To accept it takes both understanding and courage.

without being conscious of it.

Our perceptions and intuitions, as expressed in deeds, can be superior to what we know and tabulate

We know more than we think we do, a lot more than we can articulate.

The idea is simple, yet potent and universal.

Develops intuitions from practice, goes from observations to books

the statement will be more revealing of the author than the information intended by him.

A book review, good or bad, can be far more descriptive of the reviewer than informational about the book itself.

This entails the choice to see, to think, to be aware, to send the light of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being.

There is perhaps nothing more important to know about children than that they need to make sense out of their experience.

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.

Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.

Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul.

The secret is, said Phoebe, smiling, that I have learned how to talk with hens and chickens.

The closer you penetrated to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared.

there are few things whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought—few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.

It was one of those moments - which sometimes occur only at the interval of years - when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his minds age.