Quotes About Insight

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Reason needs the imagination and at the same time must transcend it because what really matters is the search for truth.

When you fool a fool, you strike a blow for intelligence.

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.

Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit. (He knows nothing who does not profit from what he knows.)

filosofi in parole e in opere,

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

Certainly there are some things which I can find out about you only, or best, through being told of them by you. The oculist has to ask his client what letters he sees with his right and left eyes and how clearly he sees them; the doctor has to ask the sufferer where the pain is and what sort of a pain it is; and the psychoanalyst has to ask his patient about his dreams and daydreams.

le persan Al-Sadjâssi, écrivait il y'a des siècles: Quand la sagesse est descendue des étages du ciel vers le centre de la terre, elle s'est établie en quatre gîtes et s'est installée en quatre demeures: dans le cerveau des grecs, sur la langue des arabes, dans la main des chinois et dans le cœur des perses.

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

Well it seems to me