Quotes About Insight

Experience seems to come from a distance.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Je vais te montrer un secret.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

En vérité, celui qui ne connaît pas la colère ne sait rien».

First man knows, then he understands, last he sees, or thinks he sees, and embroiders. In the same way the true poet creates, then understands...sometimes.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

An artist's business is only to see.

The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Statistics are no substitue for judgement.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.