Quotes About Insight

People are very determined to see only what they can explain.

Who knows what's in here? Could come in useful.

Ya?am?n?z?n belli bir döneminde olaylarla ilgili bak?? aç?n?z?n tümden de?i?ti?i, o ana dek gördü?ünüz her ?eyin henüz bilmedi?iniz öbür yüzünü size döndürdü?ünü ans?z?n fark etti?iniz oldu mu hiç sevgili okurum?

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

Take the time to understand what's behind your success. It's the best way to ensure it will continue.

If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.

To think that the spectre you see is an illusion does not rob him of his terrors: it simply adds the further terror of madness itself -- and then on top of that the horrible surmise that those whom the rest call mad have, all along, been the only people who see the world as it really is.

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation.

The scientific knowledge that unleashed atomic energy brought genuine insight into the structure of the entire cosmos and in recent years has broken down the gap between pre-organic matter, once regarded as fatally inert and passive, and living organisms.

Paradoxically, then, the greatest gains that have been achieved through command of nuclear reaction have been purely spiritual ones: an enriched conception of cosmic realities: a deeper insight into the nature of the universe and of the place that living organisms, and finally man himself, have come to occupy.

You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to imitate has been transformed into a receptivity based on a natural and uncontested relationship of authority, and you must take this into account in the broadest possible sense.

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it's not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer's. But we have a way of understanding human life that you can't get anywhere else, and it lays the foundation for important, actionable things.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

We turn the Cube and it twists us.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.