Quotes About Insight

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

The problem with wise people. They always know what is wrong. So I never employ an expert in full bloom.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

The notion that we can dismiss the views of all previous thinkers surely leaves no basis for the hope that our own work will prove of any value to others.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

There are few things more exciting to me… than a psychological reason.

If I should certainly say to a novice, "Write from experience and experience only," I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, "Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost."

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they would appear to different grades of intelligence, different classes of people, different sections of the country. More than once this many-sidedness of his mind saved the country from ruin.

Then we shall riseAnd view ourselves with clearer eyesIn that calm region where no nightCan hide us from each other's sight.

When information is contextualized, it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels convictions, it becomes wisdom.

To understand a man,' Napoleon is said to have observed, 'look at the world when he was twenty.' Thatcher had turned twenty in 1945.