Quotes About Insight

I've spent nearly thirty years listening to people sing about broken hearts, has it helped me any? Has it fuck.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to see the obvious before anyone else.4

Knowledge is more virtue than power.

En general, los hombres juzgan más por los ojos que por la inteligencia, pues todos pueden ver, pero pocos comprenden lo que ven.

Aquel que en un principado no descubre los males sino una vez nacidos, no es verdaderamente sabio; pero ésta es virtud que tienen pocos

no he encontrado entre lo poco que poseo nada que me sea más caro o que tanto estime como el conocimiento de las acciones de los hombres

Hay tres clases de cerebros: el primero discierne por sí, el segundo entiende lo que los otros disciernen y el tercero no entiende ni discierne lo que los otros disciernen. El primero es excelente, el segundo bueno y el tercero inútil.

Always know what they want to hear - not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted all along.

Os homens em geral julgam mais pelos olhos que pelas mãos, porque o ver toca a todos, sentir toca a poucos: todos vêem aquilo que tu pareces, poucos sentem aquilo que tu és

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of us all

Metti chiunque, anche uno scemo, davanti a una finestra, e avrai uno Spinoza.

One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

As long as you still experience the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge.

Enjoyment belongs to those who know things halfway.

wisdom and understanding in the course of human history will only come fully at a late stage, when we're looking back on what has already happened, like someone looking back on the events of a day as night falls.

Zincirlerini k?ran kiÅŸi bir filozof gibidir. GörünüÅŸlerin ötesini görür. S?radan bir insan gerçeklik hakk?nda az fikre sahiptir, çünkü onu derinlemesine düÅŸünmemektense, hemen önünde duran ÅŸeye bakmaktan hoÅŸnuttur. Ne var ki görünüÅŸler aldat?c?d?r. Gördükler, gölgelerdir, gerçeklik deÄŸil.

All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.

Meanwhile, my experience has shown me that beneath the darkest of visages usually gleams the softest of hearts.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.