Quotes About Insight

Some educators even repeat the old saw that "I learn as much from my students as they learn from me!" (With due respect to my colleagues in the teaching profession who use this expression, I am compelled to say: if that's true, then you're not a very good teacher.) The

Knowing things is not the same as understanding them. Comprehension is not the same thing as analysis. Expertise is a not a parlor game played with factoids.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

My only booksWere woman's looks,And folly's all they've taught me.

Didn't laugh as loud or as often. Smith, too, had seen more

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to re-establish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

It often seemed to Jake that wisdom had settled on his own head like a wreath from heaven some time around age sixty, after it was too late to do him much good and was more of an irritation than a pleasure.

Intellect is not wisdom.

After half a day in a place—especially a foreign country—you've learned more than from all the books and articles you've read.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

in the true order everything is seen from within.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.