Quotes About Insight

When people say to me, 'What should I tell my daughter?' I always say: The most important thing is to listen. This is how she learns she has something to say.

But controversy is a teacher. The

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

You are not put on this earth to see through people. You are put on this earth to see people through.

The extreme ability to find the complex simple, to simplify the complex and to find complexity in the simple is the hallmark of genius.

The secret of life is knowing and applying the secrets of life.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

If you don't feel it, you'll never get it.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted. How clearly I still see it, and yet show no sign of improvement.

nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action

Believe me, dearest, what men call intelligent Often is pedantry and self-conceit.

M? întorc în mine însumi ?i g?sesc o lume!

I go back into myself and find a whole world!

Yet here poor fool for all my lore, I stand no wiser than before

What we know we do not need; what we need, we know not...

Es hört doch jeder nur, was er versteht.

I came across my diary again today, which for some time I have neglected, and I'm astonished how consciously, step by step, I walked into it all. How clearly I have always seen my condition and acted like a child nevertheless, and how clearly I still see now, and still with no sign of a cure.

Combine truth and invention for the sake of a closer approach to reality