Quotes About Insight

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.

Cuando a los sabios se les agota la sabiduría, conviene escuchar a los niños.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

There are certain mysteries, certain secrets in my own work which even I don't understand, nor do I try to do so.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

Si parte da un dettaglio qualsiasi, talvolta di poco conto, e senza volerlo si giunge a scoprire grandi princìpi.

The inspector knew the mentality of malefactors, criminals and crooks. He knew that you always find some kind of passion at the root of it.

Human tragedies are always simple when we reconsider them in retrospect.

If I try to define my state as accurately as possible, I'd say that I possessed a warped lucidity. Reality existed around me, and I was in contact with it. I was aware of my actions.

Sometimes we're so intent on getting exactly what we ask for that we miss the fact our prayers have been answered in another way.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

It is only by selection, by elimination, and by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things.

To see takes time.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

When you're not terribly smart, it helps to be a good listener.

There are other ways of knowing than just through reason.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

But the Bible is anything but superficial. The Bible is not an easy read, and nature is not a simple study.