Quotes About Insight

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Hindsight is always zo/20.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things, but if they are capable of saying them, it is always visible.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Many things are lost for want of asking.