Quotes About Insight

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

The knowledge of all things is possible

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

The truth is at the bottom of a well: look into it and you see the sun or the moon; but if you throw yourself in, there's no more sun or moon: just truth.

Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

Il libro è una cosa: lo si può mettere su un tavolo e guardarlo soltanto, ma se lo apri e leggi diventa un mondo." - Leonardo Sciascia

Ma certe cose che la mente non intende, il cuore le intende.

La verdad está en el fondo de un pozo; uno mira en un pozo y ve el sol y la luna, pero si se tira ya no hay ni sol ni luna, está la verdad.

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.

Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter F. Drucker