Quotes About Insight

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

To enhance and expand your vision, get an education.

All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience.

True education creates a new reality for humanity.

Education is the best fertilizer for the mind.

The best education makes our minds more fertile.

Those who can truly see, know.

Wisdom is creating your own opinion. Everyone else is following someone else's opinion.

As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly.

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.