Quotes About Insight

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

In war and policy one should always try to put oneself in the position of what Bismarck called "the Other Man". The more fully and sympathetically a Minister can do this the better are his chances of being right. The more knowledge he possesses of the opposite point of view, the less puzzling it is to know what to do. But imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

A wit wrote ten years ago: "The leaders of thought have reached the horizons of human reason, but all the wires are down, and they can only communicate with us by unintelligible signals.

Comme dit Kinglake : un examen si minutieux qu'il finit par placer un objet sous un angle de vision mensonger est un plus mauvais guide qu'un rapide coup d'oeil qui embrasse les choses dans leurs justes proportions.

imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it all—Depth beyond depth was revealed to me—the Byss and the Abyss.

A battle is a veil through which it is not wise to peer.

When you climb to the top of the hill and look down you can see everything, just like Jesus on the pinnacle except it's not very tempting.

Nie ma rozpusty gorszej ni? my?lenie.

But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the larger things. You must learn to see not just with your eyes but with your heart and intelligence.

By?em kiedy? obecny przy dyskusji Kotta - czy nie z Breiterem? - na temat co chcia? powiedzie? X w swoim ostatnim utworze. Ciskali w siebie cytatami. Zaproponowa?em, ?eby go zapytali przez telefon i nawet da?em im numer. Zamilkli, a po chwili zacz?li rozmawia? o czym innym - gdy problem zosta? zredukowany do telefonicznego pytania, przesta? ich interesowa?.

More wisdom is contained in the best crime fiction than in philosophy.

Knurrewahn hatte viel durchgemacht; aber er war nicht weise geworden.

Why did the chicken cross the road? there already was a chicken on this side of the road.