Quotes About Insight

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué." ("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.") [Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

The wisest man has something yet to learn.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

O WORLD, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise,. And on the inward vision close the eyes,. But it is wisdom to believe the heart.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy

He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.