Quotes About Insight

It enhances one's appreciation of a model, and often the use one can make of it, to be aware of applications outside one's own field. Recognition of the wide applicability of a model, or of a family of models, helps in recognizing that one is dealing with a very general or basic phenomenon, not something specialized or idiosyncratic or unique.

Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.

The quality of your being expresses the correctness of your understanding. Think

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.

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