Quotes About Insight

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Value investing by its very nature is contrarian.