Quotes About Insight

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Life is still an unfolding,the farther we travel the more truth we can comprehend, and to understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.

I always trust my gut reaction it's always right.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

we cannot protect people from the lessons we ourselves have learned.

Details convince; they persuade us that the writer has looked closely at the world, and they bring us close to the world the writer is creating.

Picasso said, "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

SOMETIMES I THINK we know on some level the person we're going to be in our life, that if we pay attention, we can piece out that information.

You know what appeals to me about philosophy? Nobody wins.

Somewhere during Darwin's long journey, however, his ideas about the world shifted and he began peering at it freshly, from a different point of view. That shift ultimately led him to

We teach by demonstrating that there is more to life than what most people were brought up to believe.

Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces ,' the Professor said, patiently.

My logical mind simply can't make sense of the ability to see things before they even happen. However, experience has shown me that there is a lot more to reality than that which is generally considered "logical.

A part of growing up through a violent event like this is that the veil is pulled away and you are suddenly able to see the suffering in the eyes of other people.

A person can't put a price on somethin' as valuable as experience an' knowledge.

When we let accidents teach us things that help us make better decisions down the road, then somethin' good comes out o' the mistake.

This well-researched and moving novel provides insight into their lives as it raises important and difficult questions.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst.