Quotes About Insight

SOMETIMES OUR WAY OF THINKING LIMITS WHAT WE CAN SEE.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. —Arthur Schopenhauer

You think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

Al llevarme a casa, Harry me dijo —¿cómo podía no saberlo?—que Jackson Pollock se había rebanado la punta de su dedo meñique a los siete años. ¡Siete! Jesucristo. Ni siquiera mi dolor era original

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair

His special gift was the ability to see the essence of a worthwhile suggestion and to relate it to what was already in existence or planned. Then he would encourage and shape the new project, repeatedly redesigning the curriculum so that a new department or course could have a comfortable place in which to grow and offer it benefits.

To know a man's favourite or most constant studies cannot fail of letting in some little light upon his secret thoughts.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don't know the first thing about them.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Because anticipate rather than search the bushes. (Car plutôt anticiper - Que les fourrés rechercher.) [Fables1, The Rabbit and the Hedgehog / Le Lapin et le Hérisson]

We don't look at the Sun of Truth, but we look at the Truth effects. (Le soleil de la vérité Ne se regarde, mais ses effets)

What good the eyes without anything behind them ? (A quoi bon les yeux Sans rien derrière eux ?)