Quotes About Insight

you when you're right and tells you when you're

the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways.

Warriors win battles, not by ignoring them, but through clarity.

Nothing is as prolix as ignorance.

The faults of others are easily perceived, but those of oneself are difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour?s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester.

Nobody needs to be described as silly: let your analysis show that he is.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. Like unto trees of gold arranged in beds of silver, are wise sentences uttered in due season.

Amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent. The wise call it supreme riches, because it can never be lost, has no price, and can at no time be destroyed.

To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world

Thy witty dexterousness espouses life's aesthetic aspect.

Truth doesn't make a noise.

You've been making the wrong mistakes.

YOU'VE GOT TO DIG IT TO DIG IT, YOU DIG? ... ~ Thelonious Monk

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

To create order amidst this chaos did not require either brilliance of conception or a mighty display of force, but it required a clear insight into the interests of Rome and of her subjects, and vigor and consistency in establishing and maintaining the institutions recognized as necessary.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves

Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen

The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.

Der Splitter in deinem Auge ist das beste Vergröserungsglas.

The task of thought is to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

The detached observer is as much entangled as the active participant; the only advantage of the former is insight into his entanglement, and the infinitesimal freedom that lies in knowledge as such.

We knew many things, and much that is false. He knew nature, which is always true